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Professional Development Opportunities

ASSERT provides training to current special educators and related service providers through workshops and consultation services.

Short-term Training and Consultation

ASSERT offers short-term training and consultation for school districts throughout Utah and the intermountain region.

Intensive Training and Consultation

ASSERT partners with Utah school districts to build intensive behavior services for children with ASD. Through these intensive collaborations, ASSERT helps school districts build capacity to provide effective behavioral interventions to children with ASD. Current ASSERT partners include Granite School District, Nebo School District, and Weber School District.

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Research

ASSERT staff conduct research to develop effective behavioral intervention strategies for children with ASD and their families.

Conference Handouts 2019

California Association for Behavior Analysis (CalABA)

• Establishing and maintaining ethical behavior in human service organizations
• An evaluation of textual versus auditory scripts
• The effects of photographic activity schedules on moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in children with ASD
• Promoting sociodramatic play between children with autism and their typically developing peers using activity schedules
• Improving on-task behavior in middle school students with disabilities: modified activity schedules

Florida Institue of Technology (FIT)

• Effective Strategies for Promoting Complex Social Play in Children with Autism

UVU Autism Conference

• Building Independence Through Photographic Activity Schedules

Utah Association for Behavior Analysis Conference (UtABA)

• Activity Schedules Workshop

Michigan Autism Conference

• Michigan Autism Conference Keynote presentation

Conference Handouts 2018

Behavior Analyst Leadership Council Annual Conference 

• Disseminating behavior analytic interventions internationally: It takes more than a workshop

Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) 

• An evaluation of the effectiveness of textual and auditory presentation of scripts to children with autism spectrum disorder
• Promoting generalization of varied play behavior with children with autism
• The effects of a procedure to generalize manding “where” in children with autism

Sorenson Center for Clinical Excellence Colloquium 

• Effective strategies for promoting complex social play in children with autism

Naked Heart Foundation Forum Conference 

• Evidence-Based Strategies for Promoting Play in Young Children with Autism and Related Disabilities

III International Conference: “Autism. World of Opportunities” 

• The ASSERT model of early intensive behavioral intervention for young children with autism
• The ASSERT model of early intensive behavioral intervention for young children with autism (Russian)

Conference Handouts 2017

California Association for Behavior Analysis (CalABA)

• An evaluation of a SPA of iPad applications for young children with autism
• An evaluation of an iPad based activity schedule
• Comparing stimuli presented via tablet vs. flashcards on receptive labeling in children with autism
• Evaluation of ICT to teach paraprofessionals how to implement errorless DTT

Autism Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International 

• Effective strategies for promoting complex social play in children with autism

Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) 

• Evaluation of ICT to teach paraprofessionals how to implement errorless DTT
• An evaluation of an iPad based activity schedule
• An evaluation of a SPA of iPad applications for young children with autism
• An evaluation of fading procedures on the effects of children using activity schedules to play on the playground appropriately

Utah Multi-Tiered System of Supports (UMTSS) 

• Strategies for including children with ASD in general education settings
• Common Sense strategies for collecting and analyzing classroom data
• Positive motivational strategies for improving classroom behavior

California Nevada Behavior Analysis Conference 

• Interventions based on stimulus control to promote varied verbal behavior and complex social play in young children with autism spectrum disorder

Naked Heart Foundation Forum Conference 

• Promoting the use of research-based interventions for young children with autism
• Promoting the use of research-based interventions for young children with autism (Russian)
• Effective strategies for promoting complex social play in children with autism

International Conference of the Association for Behavior Analysis International 

• Strategies for promoting varied verbal and play behavior in young children with autism spectrum disorder