The Manor House School of Cape Cod is committed to helping those who live and work with Autism by providing the highest quality and most relevant teaching opportunities in the field!

FORUM ON EDUCATING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
Presented by Manor House School of Cape Cod & The Associated Advocacy Center

Saturday, February 27, 2010 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Venture Office Suite, 540 Main Street (second floor) Hyannis, MA
(Next to Fitness 500 Health Club. Enter the building from the rear parking lot)

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FORUM PANELISTS
Michael W. Turner, Esq Specialist in School and Education Law, and the educational needs of children; advocate for children’s rights.
Ellen Chambers, M.B.A. Executive Director, SPEDWatch; recipient of the Diane Lipton Award for Outstanding Educational Advocacy on Behalf of Children with Disabilities given by the national Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, and the Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Women of Justice Award.
Mary Acunzo, Ph.D. Specialist in neuropsychological assessment of children, adolescents and young adults with regard to attention, learning and developmental disability.
Lynn Corbett, BCBA, LMHC School and Family Behavioral Consultant, specializing in Autism, PDD, ADHD and Asperger's. Over 15 years of experience providing Behavioral Services.

Parents, this forum is for you! Discuss your most pressing concerns with local professionals and support organizations that may have the answers you are looking for. Browse our Resource Room to learn more about important services that are available to your children. At the end of the day, you will know what kind of education your children need, what they have a right to, and how to get it!

CONTACT: Susan Danton, Executive Director, MHSCC 508-385-5002 or Toni Saunders, Executive Director, Associated Advocacy Center-Visions for the Future, Inc. 508-420-4356


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Introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis & Teaching Verbal Behavior in the Classroom
Featuring Tom Caffrey, M.Ed., BCBA, founder of the Verbal Behavior Network & VBN Training

This January 2009 event, sponsored by The Manor House School of Cape Cod and held at The 1867 West Dennis Graded School House, featured an all day, free introduction to ABA/Verbal Behavior methodologies emphasizing through extensive use of videotaped case studies that intensive ABA programs featuring Verbal Behavior methodologies:
  • enhance the learning experience of students with autism in public school settings;
  • encourage faster and more effective inclusion of such students;
  • ultimately mainstream such students into a general education environment with little or no distinction between them and their typically developing peers.

While certainly open to parents of children with autism and other interested parties, this event was targeted to public school special educators to both educate and survey public school staff as to MHSCC’s presence and purpose in the community. Of the sixty-two attendees, almost fifty represented a total of nineteen public schools within eight school districts. As indicated by evaluations solicited at the conclusion of the event, the overwhelming response to the event was that of extremely high regard, whether reported by parent or professional.

Most importantly, this event underscored MHSCC’s service mission, to train students with autism intensively in the acquisition of functional language skills and return them to public school swiftly, appropriately and efficiently.


"Behavior Analysis in general, and Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior in particular, … provides professionals and parents with a solid methodology for language assessment and intervention that has the backing of decades of empirical research."
Mark L. Sundberg, Ph.D., BCBA


For further information about events or our services, please call 508.385.5002.






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