AutismOregon.org

Another find from Regina. You can click here:

http://pspb.org/live/autism/

To find many videos and audio recordings of workshop speakers from last year. This year the conference will run from July 30-August 3 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, Pennsylvania. More than likely videos will be available again (hopefully).

Regina came across some great videos that are available for free on http://childnett.tv. This website was created from Dan Marino's Foundation and you can tell it has some time, energy, and money behind it.

This link is a short workshop by Dr. Vince Carbone:
http://www.childnett.tv/videos/lectures/vincent_carbone_verbal_behavior

This is one on how to select ABA service providers:
http://www.childnett.tv/videos/lectures/jerry_evans_selecting_aba_servic...

Story. A very concise article and sound podcast on NPR depicting the effectiveness yet reluctance by insurance companies to cover applied behavior analysis (ABA).

The family sued the state to cover ABA under insurance.

But despite the potential of the treatment, the insurance company said they would not cover the costs.

They won - twice:

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Organization for Autism Research has several free autism guides online:

A Parent’s Guide to Research

Precision teaching (PT) is an instructional analysis system, based on frequency, daily measurement, and use of the Standard Celeration Chart to track a student's progress and effectiveness of an instructional program. PT can be applied across any curriculum, skills and students. Precision teaching uses the notion that "the child is always right", in that, the child's responses to instruction shows how the child learns best and that the instruction should be adjusted to use that knowledge to accelerate learning.

Families for Effective Autism Treatment of Oregon (FEAT of Oregon) has announced their intent to dissolve the nonprofit corporation.

According to their website, http://feator.org :

It is now March of 2007 and the Board here at FEAT of Oregon has tried everything possible to save FEAT. It has become apparent that nothing we do in these final hours can keep FEAT going, even at a lesser level of functioning. We are now going through the formal steps to dissolve FEAT or Oregon as a 501c3.

The Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies has written guidelines for those of us using Applied Behavior Analysis services from professional in the field. The Autism Special Interest Group (SIG) recommends:

1. Certified Behavior Analysts
2. People with one year or 1000 of hands-on experience under the supervision of a BCBA
3. Additional training and supervision

Not much but a good, general guideline.

A model exists in Carson Graham Secondary School in Canada using a language-based ABA classroom based on the principles of Verbal Behavior.

Currently, they have 16 students in the "Functional Skills" program - in which students