Welcome!

Speech Pathology Applied Behavior Analysis

Special Interest Group
www.behavioralspeech.com
May 25, 2014
Chicago, Illinois

SIG Mission
To promote the:
1. dissemination of behaviorally oriented
speech and language research, and
2. application of evidence-based practices
relevant to the full range of services
provided by speech and language
professionals.
Visit SPABAs website at
www.behavioralspeech.com

Announcements

Social Reception

9:00pm 11:00pm

Hyatt Regency
McCormick Centre,
Jackson Park D room

Announcements

watch for the SIG update in the ABAI 2014

Summer newsletter

Announcements

Facebook
Group

Announcements

Website

2013 Executive and

Committee positions:

Chair

Tracie Lindblad

Co-Chair

Nikia Dower

Past Chair

Barb Esch

Secretary

Jennifer Cook

Treasurer

Barb Esch

Membership Coordinator

-- Landa Mark

Communications Coordinator Jennifer Cook

Grant Awards Coordinator -- Amanda Karsten

Treasurers Report
Barb Esch

Assets (5-01-14)
Cash on hand (checking)
Other (Paypal)
Total assets

2027.95
54.93
2082.88

Profit & Loss Statement

01-01-13 through 12-31-13
Income
Full membership (31)
Student membership (9)
Total income

475.00
45.00
520.00

28.72
500.00
Total expenses

528.72

Net Profit /(Loss)

(8.72)

Expenses
Paypal fees
Grants & awards

Profit & Loss Statement

01-01-14 through 05-01-14
Income
Full membership (10)
Student membership (5)
Total income

155.00
25.00
180.00

10.39
Total expenses

10.39

Net Profit /(Loss) to date

169.61

Expenses
Paypal fees

Membership Report
Landa Mark

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ABAI Minneapolis 2013

ABAI Chicago 2014

2013-2014 Activities
Increase in Membership on the Executive and
Committees
Facebook Group promotion
Development of Bylaws and Policies
Expansion of Website
Financial Sustainability

Sessions
Event #144 SUNDAY
9 to 10 am (immediately after SIG meeting), Room W181a

Dr. Jon Baker symposium: Behavior Analytic Approaches to

Preference, Language, and Memory Among Older Adults with
Dementia

Sessions
Event #207 SUNDAY - noon to 2 pm, Room W375 a-d (Poster event)
Verbal Behavior Poster Session
Topics include:
Mands for information (how, which, who), increasing MO for mands, social
mands, use of speech generating devices to mand
AAC choice with apraxia
Teaching pronouns
Matrix training for 2-step receptive instructions
Matrix training to teach noun-verb tacts
Conditioning faces as reinforcers to increase observing skills
Effects of a stimulus stimulus pairing procedure on attending to faces
Teaching children with social communication delays to label actions from videos
Acquisition of Intraverbal responses: using a verbal prompt versus a verbal
prompt paired with American Sign Language
Using a lag schedule of reinforcement to evoke variable responses to "What did
you do at group today?"

Sessions
#254 Symposium
5/25/2014 - 3:00 - 4:50 pm
W185bc (McCormick Place Convention Center)

Symposium Title: VB SIG Student Group Event: Emergent Responding via

Direct Training, Conditioned Seeing, and Visual Imagining

Chair: Judah B. Axe, Simmons College

Discussant: Mark L. Sundberg, Sundberg and Associates
The Relation Between Components of Naming and Conditioned
Seeing
The Establishment of Tacts from Past Experiences: Conditioned
Seeing?
Effects of Visual Imagining and Instruction on the Spelling
Performance of Adolescents with Learning Disabilities
Evaluating the Efficiency of Listener and Tact Instruction

Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc.

325 East Main Street
Newark, DE 19713

Lori Frost
Presentation

Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc.

325 East Main Street
Newark, DE 19713

2013 Research and

Dissemination Awards
Updates by 2013 Grant Winners

Dissemination-SPABA Dissemination
Application Grant Category

Melany Shampo
Aimee Irwin
Behavior Analysis Center for Autism

A CollaborativeCollaborative-Instructional Model for

SLPs and BCBAs
BCBAs

2014 Research or
Dissemination Awards
Dr. Amanda Karsten

2014 Research Winner

Lauren Goodwyn
Caldwell University
Effectiveness of TactTact-BeforeBefore-Receptive and
ReceptiveReceptive-BeforeBefore-Tact Training