Language and Social Skills Development in Applied Behavior Analysis

Catalog description

This course is designed to examine a variety of behavior analytic methodologies to foster language and social skills development for individuals with autism and other significant disabilities. Students in this course will learn how to use and evaluate various behavior analytic strategies in teaching skills such as conversation, friendship, language concepts, cooperative play, conflict management, and self-regulation. Students will learn different strategies, such as the use of Social Stories, Comic Strips, video modeling, etc. Students will also be exposed to various curricula and technologies that are available to providing social skills instruction.