Updated and Extended BSC Licensure Training Schedule Oct 2015 – Dec 2015
Do you have Behavior Specialists on staff who works with children diagnosed with Autism
Spectrum Disorders (ASD)?
Do you need to ensure that your Behavior Specialists meet licensure requirements?
Wesley Spectrum Services is offering a wide variety of training opportunities approved for ACT 62 Credit—
Bureau of Autism Services (BAS) Behavior Specialist Licensure Hours. Descriptions are attached.
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Use of Medication with ASD
ABA 2 - Data Collection
Preparing Your Session for Verbal Behavior
Ethical Dilemmas for BSC/MT
Family Therapies: Putting the Individual in Context
Middle Childhood, Adolescent, and Development
Prompting
Proactive Strategies
Applied Behavior Analysis
Collaboration with Families
Functional Behavioral Assessment
Verbal Behavior
Family Therapy II - Intervening with the Family
ASD & Co Morbid Disorder
To register, please contact Joanne Gubash at 412-342-2228 or jgubash@wesleyspectrum.org. You must
register within 8 days of the training date. Please note that spaces are limited.
Should you need to cancel, you will receive credit towards training. No refunds
will be available. Should Wesley Spectrum cancel a training session due to
inclement weather or another emergency circumstance, the training session will
be rescheduled at the earliest convenient time and location. You will receive an
email announcing a cancellation within 24 hours prior to the training date.
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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The Use of Medications with ASD
Course Description: This training creates a greater understanding of medications commonly prescribed to
children on the autism spectrum.
Educational Objectives:
 Learning the functions and possible side effects of these medications.
 Building a better understanding of medications allows us to understand clients and their needs better,
as well as some of the biological aspects of autism spectrum disorders.
 Learn how our roles as behavior therapists relate to medications and how we can include medical
doctors as part of the treatment team.
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with autism
BSC Licensure: 2.0 Total Hours (2.0 Co-Morbidity/Medications)
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
10/8/2015 - 4:00 - 6:00 PM, Instructor: Janet Spink
121 Erhardt Drive, Penn Hills, PA 15235
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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ABA II: Data Collection
Course Description: At the completion of this training, individuals will review the introduction to Applied
Behavior Analysis; learn the dimensions of behavior and different measurement procedures. Trainees will also
practice using measurement procedures and graphing of data.
*Prerequisite: Introduction to ABA
Educational Objectives:
 Review Introduction to Applied Behavior Analysis
 Identify measurable dimensions of behavior
 Define and select various measurement, observation, and recording procedures
 Evaluate measurement procedures
 Interpret graphic displays of behavioral data
Target Audience: Master’s Level Clinicians for Autism Staff (BSC/MT)
BSC Licensure: 3.0 Total (3.0 Assessment)
Fee: $30
Available Dates:
10/16/2015 - 12:00 - 3:00 PM, Instructor. Carrie Winner
3117 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Preparing Your Session for Verbal Behavior
Course Description: This training will provide individuals with the foundations needed prior to beginning a
program that uses a verbal behavior approach.
Educational Objectives:
 Problem behavior is one common barrier to implementing any program
 Trainees will learn the importance of establishing a positive relationship, identifying the functions
of behavior and the identifying powerful reinforces for their clients
 By the end of this training, trainees will be able to begin collecting data on the elementary verbal
operant
 Effective teaching procedures
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with autism
BSC Licensure: 3.0 Skill Deficits
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
10/20/2015 - 1:00 - 4:00 PM, Instructor: Carrie Winner
5499 William Penn Hwy, Gibsonia, PA 15044
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Ethical Dilemmas for BSC/MT
Course Description: This training offers a review of applying BACB Guidelines for Responsible Conduct in
Autism Services.
Educational Objectives:
 Learn how to respond ethically to parents and other professionals.
 Understand ethical issues that face staff when working with families.
 Learn strategies to use if asked to step outside of occupational boundaries.
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with autism.
BSC Licensure: 3.0 Total Hours (3.0 Ethics)
Fee: $30
Available Training Date
10/22/2015 - 5:00 - 8:00 PM, Instructor: Constance Blaniar
121 Erhardt Drive, Penn Hills, PA 15235
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Family Therapies: Putting the Individual in Context
Course Description: Participants will improve their knowledge of family therapies, particularly Structural
Family Therapy.
Educational Objectives:
 Discuss how participants currently work with families as a part of the therapeutic process and how families
may be included as a greater part of therapy, as well as the purposes for examining the family as a context
for therapy.
 Improve participants’ therapeutic skills and increase their understanding of the impact of a diagnosis on
the family unit.
 Understand why, when, and where to refer for family therapy services.
Target Audience: Master’s Level Clinicians for Autism Staff (BSC/MT)
BSC Licensure: 3.0 Total Hours (3.0 Family Collaboration)
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
11/10/2015, 11:00 - 2:00 PM, Instructor: Janet Spink
5499 William Penn Hwy, Gibsonia, PA 15044
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Middle Childhood and Adolescent Development
Course Description: The purpose of this training is to create a greater understanding of medications
commonly prescribed to children on the autism spectrum by learning the functions and possible side effects of
these medications.
Educational Objectives:
 Build a better understanding of medications to understand our clients and their specific needs.
 Understand the biological aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with autism
BSC Licensure: 1.5 Instructional Strategies/1.0 Best Practices
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
11/10/2015, 9:30 - 12:00 PM, Instructor: Shanna Reese
121 Erhardt Drive, Penn Hills, PA 15235
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Prompting
Course Description: This training is designed to help clinicians become more effective in helping clients
acquire skills. Staff will learn how to set up effective instructions and rules, and how to effectively prompt
behavior. Staff will be proficient in these techniques following the training. Staff will review objectives in their
treatment plans and discuss how these procedures can be utilized to achieve those objectives, or updated to
more efficiently achieve our objectives.
Educational Objectives:
 Learn effective techniques to teach new skills
 Learn how to effectively prompt behavior
 Discuss data collection methods
 Practice Techniques to increase proficiency
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with autism
BSC Licensure: 3.0 Total (3.0 Instructional Strategies/Best Practices)
Fee: $30
Available Dates:
11/11/2015 - 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Instructor. Nicole Gannon
5499 William Flynn Highway, Gibsonia, PA 15044
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Proactive Strategies
Course Description: This training examines WSS Autism Services guidelines for behavior management
practices and how these guidelines affect your job. You will learn to identify and define problem behaviors in
various situations. Upon completion of this training, you will be familiar with positive, proactive strategies to
prevent and reduce problem behaviors.
Educational Objectives:
 Discuss WSS Autism Services guidelines for behavior management practices.
 Identify and define problem behavior.
 Become familiar with positive, proactive strategies to prevent and reduce problem behavior.
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with ASD.
BSC Licensure: 2.0 Total Hours (1.0 Assessment Training, 1.0 Instructional Strategies/Best Practices)
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
11/17/2015, 4:00 - 6:00 PM, Instructor - Christopher Wesling
121 Erhardt Drive, Penn Hills, PA 15235
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Applied Behavioral Analysis
Course Description: Participants will learn the primary principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and some
approaches that fall under the ABA umbrella.
Educational Objectives:
 Understand how to properly define behavior.
 Identify ways to determine the functions of behavior.
 Review general behavior change procedures.
 Become more familiar with the Autism Services philosophy.
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with autism.
BSC Licensure: 3.0 Total Hours (1.5 Assessment, 1.5 Instructional Strategies)
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
12/2/2015 - 9:00 – 12:00 PM, Instructor: Carrie Winner
121 Erhardt Drive, Penn Hills, PA 15235
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Collaboration with Families
Course Description: This training is designed to help clinicians become more strengths-based in their attitude,
learn reasons for parents’ non-adherence to treatment plan interventions, increase parental adherence to
interventions, and define and discuss collaborating with families. This training also reviews professional and
ethical boundaries and roles of each clinician.
Educational Objectives:
 Define and discuss collaborating with families
 Review professional and ethical boundaries and roles of each clinician
 Help clinicians become more strength-based
 Learn reasons parents do not adhere to the treatment plan interventions and increase parental adherence
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with ASD.
BSC Licensure: 1.0 Professional Ethics, 1.0 Family Collaboration
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
12/3/2015 - 12:30 - 2:30 PM, Instructor: Robin Veshosky
121 Erhardt Drive, Penn Hills, PA 15235
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Functional Behavioral Assessment
Course Description: This is a two part training that is designed to introduce the main concepts of identifying
and describing behaviors in an objective and measurable format, as well as, introducing the FBA with
descriptions of its main components. (This is a two day training; trainer will schedule the second day of
training with the group during day one of the training)
Educational Objectives:
 Define behavior in specific, observable and measureable terms
 Defining and practicing proper methods of data collection
 Learn to interpret data to find the function behind certain dangerous, disturbing or distracting
behaviors
 Participate in hands on activities to gain knowledge in the area of FBA
Target Audience: Master’s Level Clinicians for Autism Staff
BSC Licensure: 10.0 Total (10.0 Assessment Trainings) Day 1 and Day 2 combined
Fee: $100 for both days-pass or fail
Available Dates:
12/5/2015 - 9:00 – 2:00 PM, Instructor: Meridith Markovitz
3117 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Verbal Behavior
Course Description: Participants will understand the importance to teaching communication, and the
components of verbal behavior training.
Educational Objectives:
 Learn when and how to teach verbal behavior and advanced verbal behavior
 Motivating clients to learn
 Identifying what skills to teach
 Effective teaching procedures
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with autism
BSC Licensure: 2.0 Skill Deficits
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
12/8/2015 - 9:30 - 11:30 PM, Instructor: Carrie Winner
3117 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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Family Therapies II: Intervening with the Family (BSC/MT only)
Course Description: Participants in this training will discuss how they currently work with families as a part of
the therapeutic process and how families may be included as a greater part of therapy, as well as the purposes
for examining the family as a context for therapy.
Educational Objectives:
 Discuss how participants currently work with families as a part of the therapeutic process and how families
may be included as a greater part of therapy, as well as the purposes for examining the family as a context
for therapy as well as the purposes for examining the family as a context for therapy.
 Improve participants’ therapeutic skills and increase their understanding of the impact of a diagnosis on
the family unit.
 Participants will apply knowledge gained about specific interventions and techniques to their current case
load by identifying family needs and how BHRS can address those needs.
 Understand why, when, and where to refer for family therapy services.
Target Audience: Master’s Level Clinicians for Autism Staff (BSC/MT)
BSC Licensure: 2.0 Total Hours (2.0 Family Collaboration)
Prerequisite - Family Therapies: Putting the Individual in Context.
Fee: $30
Available Training Date:
12/15/2015 -12:00– 2:00 pm, Instructor: Janet Spink
5499 William Flynn Highway, Gibsonia, PA 15044
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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ASD and Co Morbid Disorders
Course Description: It is important for staff to understand ASD and other disorders that commonly occur with
ASD. After completing this training, staff will be able to define ASD and other pervasive developmental
disabilities, understand the prevalence and causes of ASD, and common characteristics exhibited by individuals
with ASD. Staff will be also able to define co-morbidity and be able to identify and describe common disorders
that co-occur with ASD. We will discuss the confusion involved in diagnosing children with ASD and difficulties
that arise with co-morbid disorders.
Educational Objectives:
 Define ASD and other pervasive developmental disabilities
 Understand the prevalence and causes of ASD and common characteristics exhibited by individuals
with ASD.
 Define Co morbidity and identify/describe common disorders that co-occur with ASD
Target Audience: All clinicians and research professionals, students, and trainees who work with individuals
with autism
BSC Licensure: 1.5 Autism Specific, 1.5 Co-morbidity/Meds
Fee: $30
Available Dates:
12/18/2015, 9:30 – 12:30 pm, Instructor: Nicole Gannon
5499 William Flynn Highway, Gibsonia, PA 15044
www.wesleyspectrum.org
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