The University of Washington Applied Behavior Analysis Visiting Scholar program presents:
Lynn Koegel, Ph.D.
"PRT: the research, the application, and the future"
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Saturday, April 9, 2022
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Zoom (https://washington.zoom.us/j/97663945865)
2 BACB, Learning CEUs
$30
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Dr. Lynn Kern Koegel is a Clinical Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine. She has been active in the development of programs to improve communication in children with autism, including the development of first words, grammatical structures, pragmatics, and social conversation. In addition to her published books and articles in the area of communication and language development, she has developed and
published procedures and field manuals in the area of first words, initiations, self-management, and functional analysis that are used in school districts and by parents throughout the United States, as well as translated in other major languages. Dr. Lynn Koegel is the author of Overcoming Autism and Growing Up on the Spectrum with parent Claire LaZebnik, published by Viking/Penguin and available in most bookstores. Lynn Koegel and her husband, Robert, are the developers of Pivotal Response Treatment which focuses on motivation. The Koegels have been the recipients of many awards, including the first annual Children’s Television Workshop Sesame Street Award for “Brightening the Lives of Children”, the first annual Autism Speaks award for “Science and Research”, and the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) award for Enduring Programmatic Contributions in Behavior Analysis. Dr. Lynn Koegel appeared on ABC’s hit show “Supernanny” working with a child with autism. Their work has also been showcased on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and the Discovery Channel.
PRT: The Research, The Application, and the Future
Pivotal responses are responses that affect very widespread areas of functioning. The Pivotal Response approach to the treatment of autism was originally developed as a response to children demonstrating extremely slow gains during intervention. Initially, we began this line of research into the identification of keystone, or pivotal responses, because nonverbal children frequently did not learn to acquire speech, and those who did acquire some speech could require a significant number of trials to learn a single word. The first pivotal behavior delineated focused on motivation to produce speech use in nonverbal children with autism. This presentation will discuss the basic PRT motivational procedures and how they can now be applied to a variety of different behaviors.
The second part of this presentation will focus on teaching initiations to children diagnosed with autism. Research shows that initiations are critical for more positive long-term outcomes in children with autism. This lecture will present specific procedures for teaching verbal initiations to children on the autism spectrum. The positive social and communicative long-term outcomes will be discussed.
