Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Staff Training Available
Do you wish you had money in your budget to bring in an "expert" in the field of developmental disabilities to train your staff in some of the basics? It's expensive. I charge $700 plus expenses for 14 hours of training.
Or, you can now purchase the exact same trainings I give and do them yourself as many times over the years as you need!
I have just posted my new set of staff trainings on my Moss Canyon web site. It's called Basic Training for Direct Service Providers and it consists of:
Basic Principles of Behavior - Defining behavior and understanding behavior.
Behavior Reinforcement - Positive and negative reinforcement, type I&II punishment, primary and secondary reinforcers, and the use of reinforcement.
Ethical Issues - Rights of people with disabilities, confidentiality and care and supervision of clients.
Instructional Processes - Functional programming and basic instructional methods (shaping, chaining, prompting hierarchy).
Principles of Behavior Management - Principles of behavior interventions and interim management strategies (what can we do while the client is learning their new behavior?).
Data Collection - Assessments and tracking sheets.
Service Plans - Individual Service Plans and Behavior Support Plans.
These trainings are geared for a high school graduate with little or no experience in our field. No fancy college words or snappy jargon. Just plain language to explain some of the mysteries of supporting adults with developmental disabilities.
Each topic comes with a power point slide show (although if you don't have a digital projector, you can still give dynamic trainings without the slides!) and a competency test (with an answer sheet!).
I also provide files you can print to make a packet of information for each attendee.
No one will walk out of these trainings as an expert. It is basic information (hence the name...) that anyone supporting adults with developmental disabilities in any forum (day program, vocational program, residential, high school, etc.) should have.
I have always been a fan of live trainings over online ones. How can you ask the computer questions? These trainings are designed to encourage active participation and discussion during the training time. I used stories of people with whom I worked to illustrate the principles. For example, it's fine to explain negative reinforcement using the seat belt bell as an example... but how does that relate to my clients? I don't put seat belts on them or encourage them to drive.
Check out the series at www.mosscanyon.com. I will send you some free samples if you contact me at jmeyers@mosscanyon.com.
Or, you can now purchase the exact same trainings I give and do them yourself as many times over the years as you need!
I have just posted my new set of staff trainings on my Moss Canyon web site. It's called Basic Training for Direct Service Providers and it consists of:
Basic Principles of Behavior - Defining behavior and understanding behavior.
Behavior Reinforcement - Positive and negative reinforcement, type I&II punishment, primary and secondary reinforcers, and the use of reinforcement.
Ethical Issues - Rights of people with disabilities, confidentiality and care and supervision of clients.
Instructional Processes - Functional programming and basic instructional methods (shaping, chaining, prompting hierarchy).
Principles of Behavior Management - Principles of behavior interventions and interim management strategies (what can we do while the client is learning their new behavior?).
Data Collection - Assessments and tracking sheets.
Service Plans - Individual Service Plans and Behavior Support Plans.
These trainings are geared for a high school graduate with little or no experience in our field. No fancy college words or snappy jargon. Just plain language to explain some of the mysteries of supporting adults with developmental disabilities.
Each topic comes with a power point slide show (although if you don't have a digital projector, you can still give dynamic trainings without the slides!) and a competency test (with an answer sheet!).
I also provide files you can print to make a packet of information for each attendee.
No one will walk out of these trainings as an expert. It is basic information (hence the name...) that anyone supporting adults with developmental disabilities in any forum (day program, vocational program, residential, high school, etc.) should have.
I have always been a fan of live trainings over online ones. How can you ask the computer questions? These trainings are designed to encourage active participation and discussion during the training time. I used stories of people with whom I worked to illustrate the principles. For example, it's fine to explain negative reinforcement using the seat belt bell as an example... but how does that relate to my clients? I don't put seat belts on them or encourage them to drive.
Check out the series at www.mosscanyon.com. I will send you some free samples if you contact me at jmeyers@mosscanyon.com.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
100 Sets Sold!
Congratulations to Lois Croft from the 3E Community Center in Acworth, Georgia for purchasing the 100th set of SNAP Curriculum. I was so excited that I sent her a couple of free books for being the 100th order.
And I'm certainly excited to have so many sets of curriculum now in use across the US (and in Canada and even in Ireland).
You can check out the curriculum at www.snapcurriculum.org and you can order any of my disability resource books at www.mosscanyon.com.
The curriculum is being used in day programs, residential programs, vocational programs, high schools and even a university. I continue to stress that it is not a lecture series, but a tool for staff to use to engage adults with developmental disabilities in conversations on a wide variety of daily living skills. And please engage non-verbal clients and even those people whom some consider too "low functioning" to "get it." Let's let the clients tell/show us whether or not they "get it."
You can check out Lois' program at www.3ecc.org. She warned me, though, that they are in the process of updating their website.
Now on to 200 orders!
And I'm certainly excited to have so many sets of curriculum now in use across the US (and in Canada and even in Ireland).
You can check out the curriculum at www.snapcurriculum.org and you can order any of my disability resource books at www.mosscanyon.com.
The curriculum is being used in day programs, residential programs, vocational programs, high schools and even a university. I continue to stress that it is not a lecture series, but a tool for staff to use to engage adults with developmental disabilities in conversations on a wide variety of daily living skills. And please engage non-verbal clients and even those people whom some consider too "low functioning" to "get it." Let's let the clients tell/show us whether or not they "get it."
You can check out Lois' program at www.3ecc.org. She warned me, though, that they are in the process of updating their website.
Now on to 200 orders!
