"Should we call a spade a spade?" ABA in the mainstream classroom
Date: 3/11/2017 - 3/11/2017
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: 6 College Green, room 0G/002, Queen's University
Price: - FREE
SEMINAR
The Centre for Behaviour Analysis in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work presents a seminar with Dr Catherine Storey BCBA-D
The dissemination of Behaviour Analysis has not always been well received, nor widely adopted by other professionals. In fact, despite applying many of the principles of the science to their work, professionals in education, rehabilitation, child rearing, medicine, safety, criminology, government, business, and industry will tell you “we don’t use that” when questioned about Behaviour Analysis. In implementing a behaviour analytic approach to reading instruction in ‘disadvantaged’ schools in Northern Ireland, we discovered that children receiving this type of intervention made significant improvements in phonetic ability, word recognition and sentence reading. Despite the evidence presented, there was a high level of variability in schools that were willing to adopt this program permanently. This seminar will explore the differing perspectives on sharing behaviour analysis with a particular focus on improving the dissemination of the science in mainstream education settings.
Catherine is a lecturer in behaviour analysis and a BCBA. She supervises students on the MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis and the MSc in Autism Spectrum Disorder, both in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work (QUB). Catherine researches in the areas of evidence-based education, literacy, looked-after children and educational attainment of disadvantaged children. She received her training in Behaviour Analysis at Ulster University and The New England Center for Children in Boston, MA.