Outline of Presentation:

Despite a rapidly growing body of knowledge regarding effective, behavioral analytic intervention with school age children with autism, adult outcome studies indicate that the majority of individuals graduate to lives of limited independence and community engagement. This presentation will provide a brief overview of some of the more relevant challenges to effective intervention with older individuals and offer recommendations toward improving outcomes leading to lives of competence, dignity, and quality by utilizing interventions based upon the principles of applied behavior analysis.

Workshop Objectives

After having attended this workshop, participants will be able to:

* Indentify the characteristics of interventions based upon the principles of applied behavior associated with more positive adult outcomes
* Discuss the importance of understand more general research in behavior analytic terms
* Discuss at least one application of common technology to support individuals in acquiring independent, community skills.