[Super Dad]

There is one error worth mentioning in the Vancouver Magazine article. The article says:

"The program draws its inspiration from 19th-century Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, who taught his dogs to salivate on the cue of a rung bell, and from mid-20th-century U.S. psychologist B.F. Skinner, who gained fame for his work in behavioural conditioning via rigid reward/punishment routines."

The truth is that ABA has nothing to do with Pavlov, who invented classical conditioning. ABA is all about Skinner, who invented operant conditioning. I am pointing this out because people who are against ABA like to call it "teaching dogs to drool."

Operant conditioning is the systematic (not "rigid") use of reward and punishment, and is used in every aspect of life. You can find it in business textbooks on organizational behaviour. It is taught by parenting experts such as Glenn Latham and James Dobson. The same concepts are used in ABA, just more rigorously.

I should say that the above is a small error. Overall, the article is an example of good journalism. Peter Mansbridge should read it and learn something.

Tony

[Super Dad]

There is an excellent article in the April issue of Vancouver Magazine, titled "The Boy Who Wasn't There."

If you don't have the printed version, here is the web page:
http://www.vanmag.com/News_and_Features/The_Boy_Who_Wasnt_There

The printed version has a full-page photo Bev and Allison, with the caption "a mother's love." I am going to frame this one and hang it up in the therapy room.

Tony

[Super Dad]

Re: Lunch Bunch training

For the April 21 session of the North Shore Lecture Series, we have invited Harmony House to provide a 2-hour version of their 1-day "Social Strategies in a School Setting" workshop. It will start at 7pm at the Delbrook Recreation Centre in North Van. Details to follow.

Tony

[Super Dad]

*** REMINDER: This Tuesday Night ***

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

Long Term Goal Planning: What Is It and Why Bother?
by
Sara White, PhD, BCBA
at
7:00pm, March 17
in the
Delbrook Recreation Centre

We are very excited to have Dr. Sara White as our guest speaker. Sara, a BCBA with a PhD in Clinical Psychology specializing in ABA, is one of the most brilliant behaviour consultants in the world.

Long term goal planning is an extremely beneficial clinical tool for behavioral and educational program planning for individuals with autism. In addition to allowing parents and educators to understand the relationship between current programs and more complex long-term goals, it also can assist practitioners in prioritizing targets for intervention. While similar to an individualized educational plan, long-term goal plans should ideally consider goals that are achievable over the next five to ten years. Ideally, these goal plans would be revisited with the individual’s instructional team at least once per year.

This presentation will be geared towards practitioners and parents and will be a discussion of a clinical tool rather than a description of original research. While there will be a brief discussion of theoretical research related to the topic, the presentation will largely focus on the clinical application of this technique.

Learning objectives for the presentation will be as follows:
– To describe the purpose and benefits of long term goal planning;
– To describe the relationship between long term and short term goals;
– To describe one format for presenting long term goals to instructional teams;
– To analyze one example long term goal and develop example short term goals based on that long term goal.

Please note that Sara has presented the same topic at the BC Association for Behavior Analysis conference on March 7.

DATE: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
TIME: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
LOCATION: Delbrook Recreation Centre (600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver)

For those going north/west on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn right at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd. For those going east on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn left at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd.

Coffee/Tea and snacks provided.
Donations are greatly appreciated.

Please RSVP to Carol at colemanmoser@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Carol and Tony
(Co-facilitators for ASBC North Shore Group)

[Super Dad]

*** REMINDER ***

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

Long Term Goal Planning: What Is It and Why Bother?
by
Sara White, PhD, BCBA
at
7:00pm, March 17
in the
Delbrook Recreation Centre

We are very excited to have Dr. Sara White as our guest speaker. Sara, a BCBA with a PhD in Clinical Psychology specializing in ABA, is one of the most brilliant behaviour consultants in the world.

Long term goal planning is an extremely beneficial clinical tool for behavioral and educational program planning for individuals with autism. In addition to allowing parents and educators to understand the relationship between current programs and more complex long-term goals, it also can assist practitioners in prioritizing targets for intervention. While similar to an individualized educational plan, long-term goal plans should ideally consider goals that are achievable over the next five to ten years. Ideally, these goal plans would be revisited with the individual’s instructional team at least once per year.

This presentation will be geared towards practitioners and parents and will be a discussion of a clinical tool rather than a description of original research. While there will be a brief discussion of theoretical research related to the topic, the presentation will largely focus on the clinical application of this technique.

Learning objectives for the presentation will be as follows:
– To describe the purpose and benefits of long term goal planning;
– To describe the relationship between long term and short term goals;
– To describe one format for presenting long term goals to instructional teams;
– To analyze one example long term goal and develop example short term goals based on that long term goal.

Please note that Sara has presented the same topic at the BC Association for Behavior Analysis conference on March 7.

DATE: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
TIME: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
LOCATION: Delbrook Recreation Centre (600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver)

For those going north/west on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn right at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd. For those going east on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn left at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd.

Coffee/Tea and snacks provided.
Donations are greatly appreciated.

Please RSVP to Carol at colemanmoser@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Carol and Tony
(Co-facilitators for ASBC North Shore Group)

[Super Dad]

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

Long Term Goal Planning: What Is It and Why Bother?
by
Sara White, PhD, BCBA
at
7:00pm, March 17
in the
Delbrook Recreation Centre

We are very excited to have Dr. Sara White as our guest speaker. Sara, a BCBA with a PhD in Clinical Psychology specializing in ABA, is one of the most brilliant behaviour consultants in the world.

Long term goal planning is an extremely beneficial clinical tool for behavioral and educational program planning for individuals with autism. In addition to allowing parents and educators to understand the relationship between current programs and more complex long-term goals, it also can assist practitioners in prioritizing targets for intervention. While similar to an individualized educational plan, long-term goal plans should ideally consider goals that are achievable over the next five to ten years. Ideally, these goal plans would be revisited with the individual’s instructional team at least once per year.

This presentation will be geared towards practitioners and parents and will be a discussion of a clinical tool rather than a description of original research. While there will be a brief discussion of theoretical research related to the topic, the presentation will largely focus on the clinical application of this technique.

Learning objectives for the presentation will be as follows:
– To describe the purpose and benefits of long term goal planning;
– To describe the relationship between long term and short term goals;
– To describe one format for presenting long term goals to instructional teams;
– To analyze one example long term goal and develop example short term goals based on that long term goal.

Please note that Sara has presented the same topic at the BC Association for Behavior Analysis conference on March 7.

DATE: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
TIME: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
LOCATION: Delbrook Recreation Centre (600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver)

For those going north/west on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn right at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd. For those going east on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn left at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd.

Coffee/Tea and snacks provided.
Donations are greatly appreciated.

Please RSVP to Carol at colemanmoser@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Carol and Tony
(Co-facilitators for ASBC North Shore Group)

[Super Dad]

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

Long Term Goal Planning: What Is It and Why Bother?
by
Sara White, PhD, BCBA
at
7:00pm, March 17
in the
Delbrook Recreation Centre

We are very excited to have Dr. Sara White as our guest speaker. Sara, a BCBA with a PhD in Clinical Psychology specializing in ABA, is one of the most brilliant behaviour consultants in the world.

Long term goal planning is an extremely beneficial clinical tool for behavioral and educational program planning for individuals with autism. In addition to allowing parents and educators to understand the relationship between current programs and more complex long-term goals, it also can assist practitioners in prioritizing targets for intervention. While similar to an individualized educational plan, long-term goal plans should ideally consider goals that are achievable over the next five to ten years. Ideally, these goal plans would be revisited with the individual’s instructional team at least once per year.

This presentation will be geared towards practitioners and parents and will be a discussion of a clinical tool rather than a description of original research. While there will be a brief discussion of theoretical research related to the topic, the presentation will largely focus on the clinical application of this technique.

Learning objectives for the presentation will be as follows:
– To describe the purpose and benefits of long term goal planning;
– To describe the relationship between long term and short term goals;
– To describe one format for presenting long term goals to instructional teams;
– To analyze one example long term goal and develop example short term goals based on that long term goal.

Please note that Sara has presented the same topic at the BC Association for Behavior Analysis conference on March 7.

DATE: Tuesday, March 17, 2009
TIME: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
LOCATION: Delbrook Recreation Centre (600 West Queens Road, North Vancouver)

For those going north/west on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn right at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd. For those going east on Highway #1: take exit 17 for Westview Dr, turn left at Westview Dr, and then turn right at Queens Rd.

Coffee/Tea and snacks provided.
Donations are greatly appreciated.

Please RSVP to Carol at colemanmoser@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Carol and Tony
(Co-facilitators for ASBC North Shore Group)

[Super Dad]

Hello everyone on the North Shore,

Carol has asked me to post this:

http://www2.canada.com/northshorenews/news/live/story.html?id=6dad3832-d0aa-4c49-922a-c75a3bcdf6e3

Beyond The Definitions: Understanding Autism and Asperger Syndrome through film and conversation

The presentation includes the screening of "The Boy Inside."

Time: Thursday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Sutherland secondary.
Cost: Free.

To register, contact the North Vancouver Recreation Commission at 604-987-7529, or visit http://www.northvanrec.com

[Super Dad]

*** DEADLINE ***

AUTISM AND INCOME TAX

Register for the FREE workshop TODAY!

Doug Querns, a fellow parent and accountant, has graciously volunteered to give a presentation on income tax on February 20 at 7:00pm.

Another family has graciously volunteered to host the meeting at their house near Park Royal Shopping Centre.

To register for the workshop, please send me your full name and phone number TODAY! The hostess will send her address to you shortly.

Please send the info to: tony.tamer@yahoo.com

I thank both the lecturer and the hostess for setting a great example of parents helping parents!

p.s. For ASBC members who cannot attend this workshop, there will be another one in the ASBC Burnaby office the week after. It will be provided by an accountant who is less familiar with autism, but is nonetheless expected to be very informative. For details call the ASBC office.

[Super Dad]

*** REMINDER ***

North Shore ASBC Lecture Series

The North Shore ASBC Support Group proudly presents:

An Evening with Dr. Davies
at
7:00pm, February 17
in the
West Vancouver Seniors' Activity Centre

We are very pleased to have Dr. Glen Davies of the ABLE Development Clinic as our guest speaker. Dr. Davies is by far the most respected child psychologist within the autism community, not only because of his work with autistic children, but also because of his advocacy for their rights.

Instead of a presentation, we will have a question-and-answer session, for topics such as:
* why autism treatment differs from those of other developmental disorders;
* why ABA works;
* in what ways does ABA help (aside from IQ);
* which children will benefit from ABA (e.g. age, functioning level);
* how ABA is relevant to the school classroom;
* evaluating current fads in autism treatment;
* using other treatments in conjunction with ABA (e.g. biomedical).

DATE: Tuesday, February 17, 2009
TIME: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
LOCATION: West Vancouver Seniors' Activity Centre (695 21st St, West Vancouver).

For those going north/west on Highway #1: take exit 10 (for 21st St/Westhill Dr) and then turn left at 21st St. For those going east on Highway #1: take exit 10 (for 22nd St), merge onto Orchard Way, turn right at 22nd St, turn left at Queens Ave and then turn right at 21st St.

Coffee/Tea provided.
Donations are greatly appreciated.

Please RSVP to Carol at colemanmoser@hotmail.com

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Carol and Tony

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