• Overview of the Individual and Basic principles of behaviour
• Functions of behaviour and methods of identifying these
• Academic Instruction, visual supports and Data Collection
• Implementing behaviour support plans in various settings
• How to plan for the future

Our next workshop will be taking place on Monday and Wednesday evenings for three weeks from the 1st November. The total cost for this is €300. You can book a place on this course immediately by calling Jennifer on 01 894 2765 or emailing her at jennifer.sheridan@pbireland.ie

Alternatively, use our contact form to request a call-back at a time that is convenient to you.

In addition to this introductory ABA workshop, we will also be running a more advanced course in early 2010. This course will focus on specific topics such as toilet training, food problems, challenging behaviour and other topics. If you or your organisation have a specific topic that you’d like covered, please feel free to email Jennifer (at the email address above) and speak to her directly.

1. Fundraising – More good news
2. The Incredible Years and ABA Workshops
3. ABA Conference
4. PBI’s first board meeting
5. Placement available with PBI

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The position will be in the tuition centre (in the city centre), working mainly with adolescents with emotional and behavioural problems, and their parents/ carers. It involves direct tuition of the young people, and may also include teaching assistance for secondary school teachers. Please see below for a more detailed outline

• Three days per week, generally 10am to 3pm, either Monday to Wednesday, or Wednesday to Friday. Placement runs from September 2010 to July 2011, in line with school calendar.
• Training given in ABA, TCI (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention), Emergency First Aid, Children First.
• Two hours BCBA supervision provided on Wednesdays every week.
• Opportunity and resources to conduct research with young people in the tuition service, also access to carers and staff for research.
• Supervised tuition and behaviour management programmes.
• Data collection and report writing

Enquiries to jennifer.sheridan@pbireland.ie

We’re planning on holding both our ABA Workshops and Incredible Years again in September. The three-day ABA Workshop will take place on Saturday 4th, 11th and 18th September. To book in to the ABA workshops, phone Jennifer Sheridan on (01) 894 2765 or e-mail her on jennifer.sheridan@pbireland.ie.

As for the Incredible Years, this will be starting on Tuesday 7th September at 7pm, lasting for 12 weeks. Call Ann Pendergrast on (01) 894 2765 or e-mail her on ann.pendergrast@pbireland.ie to book your place.

On a different note, we’re running a series of three ABA Workshops on Saturday 8th, 15th and 22nd May. Find more information see here or call (01) 894 2765 and speak to Jennifer.

Paddy Ryan, the current Campaigns and Communications Officer in the UCD Students’ Union, is to run the Vienna Marathon this Sunday in aid of PBI. “I’m delighted to be able to raise money for such a good cause – we in the Students’ Union are always trying to get more young people involved in eduction and PBI’s inclusive approach does exactly that”. Bernadette Manning, PBI’s CEO commented: “The support that Paddy and other fundraisers provide is crucial to the provision of PBI’s services -it allows us to deliver high-quality services to as many young people as possible”. PBI needs as many people to donate to this fundraising effort as possible. Go to this page now and donate – every little helps!

Reminder:

Also, don’t forget about the extra-special comedy night fundraiser on the the 22nd April (The Facebook event page is here). Tickets are still available from us, call (01) 894 2765 to buy them!

You may have heard mention recently about a brand new online action platform that’s beginning to creep into Ireland. It’s called IfWeRanTheWorld.com (IWRTW). The site poses the very simple question: If you ran the world, what would you do? We like this, we like it a lot. We stumbled across it last week while reading Paul Dervan’s idea for helping charities. Paul’s idea is to hook marketing graduates up with charities and not-for-profits in Ireland to provide quality voluntary work for 6 months, in return for which the graduates get marketing classes and workshops from the best in the business. Paul has received a huge response to his call-to-action, you can read all about it here. You can also join in the fun over at IfWeRanTheWorld by registering and joining the action. I spoke to Cindy Gallop, the key figure behind the website, over Skype on Wednesday and the plans for the site sound incredible. The site is currently in Beta testing, so there are still lots of bugs there. Listen to an interview with Cindy on part two of this podcast (direct MP3 link) from Saturday’s The Business show on RTÉ Radio One – Cindy is on after Patrick Collison talks about the iPad on the 10th April.

Grace iPhone App

Speaking of all things ‘i’, you may have missed the release of a new Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) app for the iPhone. The app was developed by Lisa Domican and Steve Troughton-Smith after Lisa saw an advertisement for an O2 iPhone on a bus. The app aims to make communication easier for children with autism. You can find more information about this app over on the (award-winning) Irish Autism Action blog.

You’re all cordially invited to our first fundraising event – a comedy night in the Laughter Lounge on Eden Quay on Thursday 22nd April. The event promises to be brilliant, with entertainment provided by a “Whose Line is it Anyway”-style show called ‘Text in the City’. The audience will send in texts to the GIANT mobile phone (see the picture above!) and the comedians will perform improvised routines based on the texts! On-stage will be Ian Coppinger, Paul Tylak and Joe ‘Father Damo’ Rooney! This promises to be a wonderful night, with tickets costing just €25 available by calling (01) 894 2765. The proceeds from the tickets will go towards providing tuition for young people in our centre in Mountjoy Square.

You can also donate to PBI by going to http://short.ie/give2pbi

The event is over 18 and ID is required.

Facebook users – go here to RSVP to the invite!

Board Positions Available

We have a number of positions available on BoardMatch at the moment. Unfortunately I can’t link directly to them from here. The positions we’re looking to fill are:

• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Chair of Parent and Carer Training Sub Committee

We anticipate the workload to be no more than 12 hours per month. Please feel free to e-mail info@pbireland.ie if you are interested in getting involved with PBI in this manner.

Study Group

As we mentioned last week, we’ll be running a supported study group for teenagers with Aspergers Syndrome from the 22nd April in Mountjoy Square. Check the previous post for more details, or speak to Jennifer on (01) 894 2765

NAMA For Charities?

Keith Duffy, the patron of Irish Autism Action, had an opinion piece in The Irish Times last Friday, for World Autism Awareness Day.  “A Nama for charities and a bailout for volunteers would be great. The only thing certain after the week we’ve had is that we won’t get either.” It’s a good piece overall, so have a read of it here.