TRAINING
For Support Agencies

Level 1: Core Training
Person Centred Planning and Technical Supports

This 36 hour training package has proven to be highly effective. It has been designed for support agencies and support networks that are assisting persons with significant disabilities to lead quality lives in their communities. The training is relevant for persons with significant disabilities of any age.

• Using the Lifestyle Development Process (LDP) to Design Personal Support Plans
  
  Day one of this 36-hour training package provides a systematic process for determining individualized daily and weekly schedules for people with disabilities. The workshop first introduces a strategy for generating a personal profile of the focus individual. Then, the person's current daily and weekly schedule is analyzed in light of this profile. Finally, participants are taught to use the personal profile to generate an activity schedule based on individual preferences in the community.
  
  
• Basic Instructional Techniques in Community Settings
  
  Day two of this 36 hour training package provides an overview of strategies that can be used to provide instructional supports to people with significant disabilities. Participants are taught to conduct task analyses and ecological inventories of functional routines in residential, vocational, and community settings. Strategies such as prompting/fading and chaining are also discussed in detail. Participants will be taught how to adapt instruction to best "match" the learning styles of the individuals they support.
  
  
• Communication Approaches to Challenging Behaviour: Assessment and Intervention
  
  Days three and four of this 36 hour training package provide an overview of behavioural assessment and the positive behavioural support paradigm. Day 3 focuses on techniques for behavioural assessment. These include analog assessment, setting event checklists, the Motivation Assessment Scale, and Scatter plots. Day 4 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 People with significant Disabilities in Community Settings
  
  Day five of this 36 hour training package is intended as an introduction to communication for persons 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 people to make choices.
  
  
• Advanced Strategies for Supporting the Communication of People with Significant Disabilities in Community Settings
  
  The final day of this 36 hour training package builds on Basic Strategies for Supporting the Communication of People with significant Disabilities in Community Settings by providing a variety of specific communication strategies that do not require the use of electronic devices and that can be implemented in residential, vocational, and community 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 the individuals they support.

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