STAR 2-day Comprehensive Workshop

STAR Workshop Participants will learn the techniques of discrete trial training, pivotal response training and teaching functional routines. Participants will receive examples of the STAR program lesson plans at each instructional level in order to practice their skills in implementing the program.

The workshop content will include the following:

• Learn important curriculum content to teach students with autism.

• An overview of the three instructional methods (discrete trial, pivotal response training and teaching functional routines) and how they are used in combination to form the STAR program.

• A comprehensive “how to” training on the use of discrete trial training.

• An introduction on how to implement pivotal response training to teach expressive language and play skills.

• An introduction on how to implement functional routines to teach independence.

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What participants will learn:

• Developmental curriculum content appropriate for children with autism

• Curriculum-based assessment techniques for baseline and progress monitoring

• To use applied behavior analysis (ABA) lesson plans

• Teach children with autism using the discrete trial training method

• Be familiar with the method of pivotal response training and the research

• Teach children with autism to be independent and to generalize skills learned in discrete trial and pivotal response training within their daily functional routines

• The critical skills students with autism need to learn

• To teach communication skills, academic skills and social interaction & play skills to a variety of children with autism.