ABLE ACADEMY Clinical Classroom Program

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ABLE ACADEMYClinical Classroom Program

• 3227 Horseshoe Drive South, 111
• Naples, Florida 34104
• Telephone [phone]
• Facsimile 239-352-7609
• www.theableacademy.org

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Program

• Ratio of Students to Staff 31 41 in advanced
  program
• Group Rotations
• Group Flexibility Available
• All Activities Individualized to Meet Each
  Learners Needs

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Program Tenants

• Intensive teaching (discrete trial training) is
  used throughout the day.
• Individual Objectives and Targeted Skills are
  instructed and integrated during every activity.
• Data is maintained during each activity.
• A Key to mastering a skill is being able to
  perform that skill given different conditions
  (materials, activities and personnel).
• Integration is inherent in the program design.
• Rotations allow learners to demonstrate skills
  for more than one individual.
• Parent training is an integral part of learner
  success and is provided each quarter.

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Instructional Zones

• Natural Environment Training Zone
• Target Zone
• Skill Center Zone
• Music and Motion Zone
• Discovery Zone
• Social Snack/Lunch Emphasis on Oral Motor Skills

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Natural Environment Training Zone

• Follow motivation of each learner utilize
  learner selected materials and activities to
  target individualized skills
• Incorporates all areas of verbal behavior and
  oral motor skills
• Allows for natural peer interaction
• Includes additional opportunities for practice in
  cooperation, generalized responding and social
  skills training

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Target Zone

• The target zone provides a theme-based
  opportunity for learners to practice selected
  skills for intensive teaching
• Learner specific targets selected from the
  Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills
  (ABLLS) are directly instructed
• Target zones typically occur at a table with
  instructor selected materials to ensure each
  target is probed and instructed

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Skill Center Zone

• The Skill Center Zone is carefully designed such
  that each learner practices skills in
  acquisition. Each learner completes separate
  assigned activities.
• A major component of the Skill Center Zone is the
  focus on the learners ability to complete a
  targeted task from beginning to end without
  error.

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Literacy Zone

• The Literacy Zone is designed so that each
  learner is introduced to the different modes of
  literacy in a variety of interesting and
  motivating ways.
• Listening
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking

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Music Zone

• Through the use of music and movement, each
  learners individualized objectives are targeted.
  
• ABLLS Areas May Include
• A- Cooperation
• B- Visual Performance
• C- Receptive
• D- Imitation
• E- Echoic
• F- Requesting
• G- Labeling
• H- Intraverbals (Conversation)
• K- Play Skills
• L- Social Interaction
• M- Group Instruction
• N- Generalized Instruction

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Discovery Zone

• The Discovery Zone consists of sensorial, small
  motor and cause/effect activities.
• Each learners individualized program objectives
  are incorporated into the activities.

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Motion Zone

• The Motion Zone provides for a structured daily
  time during which learners can run, jump, swing
  and play.
• The focus of the Motion Zone is to integrate
  learner objectives from ABLLS areas
• K- Play Skills
• L- Social Interaction
• M- Group Instruction
• N- Generalized Instruction

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Social Snack/Lunch

• Everyone gets hungry! During social lunch time,
  learners replenish their physical selves while
  practicing important oral motor and social
  skills.
• In addition to social skills practice, learners
  begin to generalize skills from Target and Skill
  Zones as they are discretely integrated by
  instructors.

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Clinical Classroom Program

• Student to Staff Ratio 31
• Follows a school year calendar, 900 200 each
  day
• Opportunities for instruction during vacation
  time is available
• Intensive Instruction throughout activities
• Errorless teaching employed all day, every day
• Mastery requires a three-step process (Tiers)
• Each learner receives an Individualized Treatment
  Plan (ITP) that guides his program

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Tier One

• TIER ONE In tier one, staff supply
  individualized programming in a discrete,
  one-on-one setting. Goals include rapid
  acquisition of early learner and pre-requisite
  skills and generalization of skills across
  instructors

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Tier Two

• TIER TWO Once a target is mastered in Tier One,
  it is immediately transferred to Tier Two. The
  learner must demonstrate the targeted skill
  during teacher-directed activities in a group of
  three learners.

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Tier Three

• TIER THREE Once a target is mastered in Tier
  Two, it is immediately transferred to Tier Three.
  The learner must demonstrate the targeted skill
  during learner-directed activities in a group of
  three learners.

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One-on-One Instruction

• The clinical classroom model dictates intensive
  instruction in all skills and provides for a
  systematic method of determining mastery and
  transferring each learned skill to natural
  conditions.
• We realize that some learners may require
  additional one-on-one instruction to maximize
  their success and are available to provide this.