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Resources for Staffing Home Programs. This document provides tips for finding instructors.

You and your instructors can receive direct and on-going training in ABA techniques from a qualified program consultant. This list will help you find one.

Websites that contain a lot of useful information about ABA/VB:

Verbal Behavior wiki

Christina Burk ABA

www.poac.net (click “Training” to download training handouts)

VBN Training

The Mariposa School

A number of other Yahoo groups exist for discussion of techniques, including using a Verbal Behavior approach. Use Yahoo’s group search to find and sign up for one of these:

VerbalBehavior
DTT-NET
autismaba

Also, for local autism information beyond ABA, these groups are helpful:

-- Autism_Maryland
-- AutismSocietyHoCo

Many of our members have found attending a training workshop provided by board certified behavior analysts, particularly Dr. Vincent Carbone, to be especially helpful in setting up our ABA/VB programs. These links may help you find such training:

www.drcarbone.net

www.establishingoperationsinc.com/workshops.aspx

If traveling to, or waiting for, workshops present a barrier to you, video training sessions are available for purchase at:

www.abatoolchest.com
http://establishingoperationsinc.com/

Two basic tools of an ABA/VB program are the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills (the ABLLS) and the manual Teaching Language to Children with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, both by Partington and Sundberg. These can be purchased at: www.behavioranalysts.com (click “Products”) or at Different Roads to Learning http://www.difflearn.com/

We hope these materials help you get started. To talk with someone with experience creating an ABA/VB program supported by Baltimore County Public Schools, feel free to contact us.

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