JOB POSTINGS - BCBA Senior Behavior Analyst (click on position title for details).
Shaunessy Egan, MS. Ed., BCBA and Mark J. Palmieri, Psy.D., BCBA-D will be presenting a workshop titled "Capacity Building Consultation: Systemic Interventions That Increase Accessibility to Best Practice Interventions" on May 25, 2012 at the annual conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International in Seattle, Washington.
The abstract for the workshop is: Program development is an increasingly common task for those providing consultation within educational settings. Often, however, the consultative relationship lacks the clarity necessary to establish meaningful and sustainable change for both the student and the educational system. These relationships often achieve gains for specific individuals without expanding, with high fidelity, the ability of the broader system to maintain the needs of all learners. A capacity building consultation model that incorporates specific system-level assessment procedures to map the needs of both the individual learners and the system as a whole offers a framework for achieving valuable and sustainable change. Consultative relationships that are founded in comprehensive assessment are well positioned to establish strong motivation for change, develop interventions that are clearly matched to the current needs, and most importantly, access the resources necessary for realizing outcomes. Such models of program consultation consider all factors that impact program development, such as administrative support, parent buy-in, materials, time, staffing, and professional training. This workshop will address the critical elements of such consultative models by identifying the core elements of building system-level relationships, executing comprehensive assessments of individual and system needs, and establishing short and long term capacity building interventions.
"Sensitivity of Current and Proposed Diagnostic Criteria: Are We on the Path to Exclusion?" will be presented on May 19, 2012 at the International Meeting for Autism Research in Toronto, Canada.
Psychologists from the Center for Children with Special Needs will be presenting research on how the proposed changes to diagnostic criteria in DSMV will impact children currently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Authors include: Kristen S. D'Eramo, Ph.D., Tina M. Newman, Ph.D., Courtney M. Cotter, Ph.D., BCBA-D, James W. Loomis, Ph.D., Mark J. Palmieri, Psy.D., BCBA-D; Michael D. Powers, Psy.D. (Center for Children with Special Needs) and Adam Naples, Ph.D. (Yale Child Study Center).
