LAHMIEI

LAHMIEI

	Invited Speakers and Presentations
		Alison Betz Bio: Alison Betz received her Ph.D. from the Department of Special Education at Utah State University. During this time her research focused on training educational staff on the principals of ABA, verbal behavior, and teaching social skills to children with autism. After receiving her Ph.D., Alison completed a post-doctoral fellowship at University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe Meyer Institute in the Severe Behavior Disorders Clinic. While completing her post-doctoral work and throughout the past year at FIT, Alison has developed four major lines of research; 1) verbal behavior; 2) Evaluating methods of schedule thinning following the treatment of severe problem behavior; 3) Evaluating token economies through the use of the principles of behavioral economics; and 4) the assessment and treatment of food refusal and selectivity with children with disabilities. TITLE: The Use of Stimulus Control Procedures to Manage Problem Behavior during Early Intervention Services with children with Autism ABSTRACT: Behavioral treatments such as Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO), Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD), and Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCR) have been shown to be effective interventions to decrease problem behavior with children with autism and other developmental disabilities such as. Although shown to be effective, such interventions may be difficult to implement in the individual’s natural environment by caregivers and teachers. Thus, it is imperative to evaluate procedures that can be implemented with high levels of integrity in the natural environment while maintaining low levels of problem behavior. One possible method of promoting generalization to the natural environment is the use of contingency-specifying stimuli that can be transferred to multiple settings while maintaining control over the target behavior. This presentation will review current research evaluating the effects of the use of conditioned stimuli to promote generalization across settings.