Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	Problem Behavior: Frequency in individuals with developmental disabilities; Problem behaviors seen in individuals with developmental disabilities.
Week - 2	Communication skills: What is communication, What are the forms of communication, What are communication skills, What are the language and communication features common in individuals with developmental disabilities.
Week - 3	Practices for Gaining Communication Skills: Practices for Gaining Verbal Communication Skills: Teaching with Discrete Trials, Natural Teaching.
Week - 4	Applications to gain non-verbal communication skills: Alternative and supportive communication applications
Week - 5	Functions of Problem Behaviors: Positive reinforcement-Negative reinforcement and Automatic reinforcement function. Functional Behavioral Evaluation: Indirect evaluation, Direct evaluation, Experimental (Functional analysis) evaluation. Traditional functional analysis application and Alternative Functional Analysis Applications.
Week - 6	Mid Term Exam
Week - 7	Behavior Measurement and Behavior Recording Techniques
Week - 8	Functional Communication Skills
Week - 9	Functional Communication Teaching
Week - 10	Teaching New Skills
Week - 11	Functional Communication Training
Week - 12	Providing Functional Communication Teaching Skills to Parents of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Week - 13	Presentation of the Teaching Plan
Week - 14	Final Exam