TRAINING
For School Districts

Comprehensive Training Courses

Level 1: Core Training
Person Centred Planning and Technical Supports

This 36-hour training package has been designed for and provided to school districts that are supporting students with significant disabilities in inclusive settings. It is a highly effective and practical approach for teachers, educational assistants, parents, and administrators.

• IEP Planning in Inclusive Settings
  Day one of this 36-hour training package provides a systematic process for determining curricular and instructional priorities that can be included in IEPs. The workshop first introduces a strategy for generating a personal profile of the target student. A format for conducting a family prioritization interview is presented as a way of involving families in the IEP planning process. Strategies for integrating instructional priorities into the general education classroom and planning long-term supports are also included.
  
  
• Basic Instructional Techniques in Inclusive Classrooms
  Day two of this 36-hour training package provides an overview of strategies that can used to provide instructional supports to students with significant disabilities in inclusive classrooms. Participants are taught to conduct task analyses and ecological inventories of functional routines in school and community settings. Strategies such as cooperative learning and peer mediated learning are also discussed, along with basic teaching techniques such as prompting/fading and chaining. Participants will be taught how to adapt instruction to best "match" the learning styles of individual students.
  
  
• Communication Approaches to Challenging Behaviour: Assessment and Intervention
  Days three and four of this 36-hour training course provide an overview of behavioural assessment and the positive behavioural support paradigm. Day one focuses on techniques for behavioural assessment. These include analog assessment, setting event checklists, the Motivation Assessment Scale, and Scatter plots. Day two focuses on multi-element, positive behavioural supports. These include ecological interventions as well as those that teach alternative communication behaviors. Strategies for behaviours related to stress, anxiety, and frustration will also be included.
  
  
• Basic Strategies for Supporting the Communication of Students with Significant Disabilities in Inclusive Settings
  Day five of this 36-hour training course is intended as an introduction to communication for students with significant disabilities whose speech does not meet their daily communication needs. The workshop begins with information about how people communicate and the purposes of communication. The relationship between communication and challenging behaviour is explained, and the basic elements of augmentative communication are reviewed. Participants are provided with several strategies for basic communication assessment. Emphasis is placed on strategies for identifying choicemaking opportunities, designing choicemaking systems, and teaching students to make choices.
  
  
• Advanced Strategies for Supporting the Communication of Students with Significant Disabilities in Inclusive Settings
  Day six of this 36-hour training program builds on the content of Day five by providing a variety of specific communication strategies that do not require the use of electronic devices and that can be implemented in school settings. Such strategies include scripted routines, gesture dictionaries, schedule boxes/books, remnant books, conversation books, choice displays, single message cassette tapes strategies, and others. Slides and videotapes are used to teach participants when and how to implement these strategies with individual students.

TOTAL COST FOR THIS 36 HOUR TRAINING PACKAGE
$9,000.00 -plus travel expenses

For additional information about workshops and courses, or to schedule training, contact Dr. Paul Malette of CBI Consultants at (604) 921-1670 or e-mail at info@cbiconsultants.com