Social skills workshop for autistic children offered in November

Developing Meaningful Relationships: Teaching Authentic Social Skills at Change Lives

Presented by: Mitchell Taubman, Ph.D.

Relatively limited attention in ABA has been devoted to the social area, and focus has typically been on basic skills. Other approaches have tried to address more complex social skills; however, they typically propose mere experiences that somehow produce social effects. Regrettably, as with much in autism treatment, social growth does not occur simply. This workshop is concerned with the effective application of contemporary ABA to a range of social skills for children with autism.

Topics to be discussed will include:
• ABA and Social Skills
• Other Approaches to the Social Skills Dilemma
• Social Skills Instructional Techniques: The Teaching Interaction
• The Problems with Existing Social Skills Curricula
• The Present Solution: The Social Skills Taxonomy
• Programming for Transfer to Everyday Life
• Making it Real: Authentic Competencies vs. Rote Skills
• True Relationships

Thursday, November 5, 2009
8:30 AM-2:30 PM
$90/Person • $75 for Parents (Lunch provided)
Autism Partnership
200 Marina Drive, Seal Beach CA 90740

We accept all major credit and/or debit cards.

Parents may request funding for workshop registration through RegionalCenter (service code 102, vendorization #PM0382)

Questions can be directed to info@autismpartnership.com or 1-800-816-9293, press “0”

www.autismpartnership.com

Mitch Taubman
Mitch Taubman worked with Dr. Ivar Lovaas as an undergraduate at UCLA in the early 1970’s providing treatment to children with autism, ADHD, and other disorders. Subsequently, he attended the University of Kansas studying with such founders of Applied Behavior Analysis as Dr. Donald Baer, Dr. Todd Risely, Dr. James Sherman, and his Doctoral Advisor was Montrose Wolf. At UCLA he served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology and as Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Lovaas on a Federal Grant directed at autism Treatment. After this post-doctoral work, he obtained his License as a Clinical Psychologist and also served as Clinical Director of Straight Talk. Dr. Taubman is currently Co-Director of Autism Partnership, where he provides treatment oversight, training, and consultation both nationally and internationally.