Study Guide: Creating Effective Learning Environments

The creators of PECS are now offering you an opportunity to learn all you ever wanted to know about teaching students with developmental disabilities. This self-study allows you to work at your own pace to read the Pyramid Approach to Education in Autism book and complete the study guide filled with practical questions.

Participants will focus on the review of essential elements in creating an effective educational environment for learners with developmental disabilities. Specific topics include functional activities, reinforcement, communication, contextually inappropriate behaviors, generalization, lesson formats, error correction, teaching strategies and data collection/analysis. Completion of the study guide allows reflection and implementation of all concepts highlighted within the text.

Upon completion of this course, participants will demonstrate the ability to:

Identify and incorporate components for an effective learning environment
Incorporate effective visual reinforcement strategies for all learners
Identify and describe functional activities across domains
Define functional communication and identify the conditions under which it occurs
Identify appropriate lesson types across a variety of skills
Identify effective teaching strategies to promote skills across domains
Implement effective error correction strategies to promote skills across domains
Identify and implement teaching of the critical expressive communication skills for individuals using a variety of communication modalities
Create lesson plans incorporating all aspects of the Pyramid Approach to Education
Create operational definitions of contextually inappropriate behaviors
Identify functionally equivalent alternative behaviors to contextually inappropriate behaviors

Benefits of this self-study include:

Participants will read about practical information that can easily be incorporated into any setting.
Many realistic and practical examples for effective teaching are included in the Pyramid Book.
The study guide allows for reflection and immediate implementation of concepts.
Participants are able to complete this self-study activity at their own pace.
This course completes the majority of the requirements of ASHA membership renewal.

CEUs: 2.4 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate Level, Professional Area)

Study Guide: Creating Effective Learning Environments: $295.00

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