Skybound Therapies

We will be at the Vale of Glamorgan Show tomorrow! Come and meet our Cardiff based team! Both of our Board Certified Behaviour Analysts who live and work in the Cardiff and Vale areas will be there! If you need a rest or your child needs a break feel free to stop by!

It has been a busy first day at ACT Summer Camp!! On day 1 we have focused on: - Values: The things that are important to us - How sticking on the path towards living a valued life can be hard and we can get distracted - Acting out some ACT metaphors such as walking the line towards values - Mindfulness exercises: Including the use of some very helpful apps... - Having fun and getting to know each other with some cool ice-breaker activities.
Tomorrow we will focus on Acceptance of difficult thoughts and feelings, bringing in different elements of the AIM curriculum!
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It's a busy day at Gower Show! We've had lots of children in to play and been chatting to people about the range of services we offer for individuals with brain injury, autism, cerebral palsy and the training we offer for professionals!

We are all setup at the Gower Show!

We are here in the beautiful #Gower today!!! It is a gorgeous day and there are lots of things to see and do here at the Gower Show! It certainly was a beautiful drive here this morning!

Teaching Speech!
We use a variety of techniques to develop functional speech, combining Applied Behaviour Analysis and Speech and Language Therapy. We have recently been reviewing some of the research on using phonetic hand cues and also the effect of teaching auditory matching on the development of the ability to echo sounds and words! If your child does not have speech yet, ensure that you leave no stone unturned and have tried everything to develop functional speech, here ...are just a few of the procedures:
- Tactile cues - Apraixa Kit - Phonetic Hand Cues - Rapid Motor Imitation Antecedent - Sign Mand Training - Stimulus Stimulus Pairing - oral motor imitation to vocal imitation - auditory matching - direct reinforcement of vocalisations
#speech
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We are going to be at the Gower Show tomorrow! Come and meet some of our team and discuss the services we can provide! The Gower Show is a great day out!
#GowerShow #dayout #meettheteam

One place left! Starts on Monday! £375 for 5 days!

**One place left on summer camp**
Summer camp is running from Monday 6th August to Friday 10th August for 7-12 year olds! The summer camp is focused on developing psychological flexibility using Acceptance and Commitment Training! Cost is £375 for the week. Email Rhian.thorne@skyboundtherapies.co.uk

Exercise, the benefits and People with Disabilities
In February this year, we looked around for an opportunity for one of our Intensive clients to have a session at a gym. We found GB 121 Training & Nutrition, gave Gareth a call and headed over to the gym. He was really understanding and patient with us and the young adult with autism. So I decided to book myself in for a Personal Training session. I felt the benefits after the very first session!
The NHS list the following ...as benefits:
Reduce risk of major illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and cancer by up to 50% Lower your risk of early death by up to 30% Boost self esteem Improve mood Improve sleep quality Increase energy Reduce stress Reduce risk of depression Reduce risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
https://www.nhs.uk/live-…/exercise/exer cise-health-benefits/
The health benefits I felt were an increase in energy, reduced stress, increased resilience and improved sleep quality! With feeling so many benefits myself, it has really made me focus on ensuring our clients are getting enough exercise too! Especially with disabled people being twice as likely to be physically inactive (43%) than non-disabled people (21%) (Sport England, 2015-16).
So we started Dan, who has severe autism, severe developmental delay and dyspraxia, going for one personal training session per week and he loves it! Dan goes with one of his Behaviour Technicians, however Gareth is now able to do the whole session including prompting and delivering reinforcement at the correct times!
We have taken a number of individuals with disabilities for sessions now and have been amazed at how well they have done!
We are very grateful for Gareth at GB 121 training for being inclusive!
Risca
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We have a new position available!!! 30 hours employed position with Registered Behaviour Technician training and certification available too!

We have met some amazing behaviour technicians! Huge shout out to all of you!

This is a very important topic for those of you with teenagers!

*Summer Camp 6th - 10th August 2018 for 7-12 year olds*
We have a few spaces left on our summer camp focusing on using Acceptance and Commitment Training. We have now produced a document with examples of what the children will be working on! Email Risca@skyboundtherapies.co.uk for more information! Cost is £375 for 5 days.

**ABA Home Tutor Required in Belgium**
Exciting opportunity for anyone interested in spending September - November in Belgium.
We are looking for a tutor for a home-based programme of our son. He is an 8-year-old boy on the Autistic Spectrum. We have used ABA since the age of 3. The main focus of the program will be on increasing his communication skills, increasing independence/self-help skills, positive behavioral support, developing leisure community skills and social skil...ls with peers. Good cooperation has been established. The teacher should be an EU citizen, ideally have ABA training and preferably some experience in applying it in special education environment.
The person will receive regular training by our Board Certified Behaviour Analyst and be supported by the parents if needed at any time. We can provide a remuneration of EUR 40 per hour for 6-7 hours per day, 5 days a week. We live in a small town 10 km away from Brussels. We are looking to recruit the person as of 1 September 2018. For a contact, please email at advert_special_ed_brussels@yahoo.com with details of your qualifications and experience and an indication of when you can start. We will schedule a Skype call in order to discuss details.
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Do you want to know more about how we assist individuals who display challenging behaviour? Take a look at this great video by BILD on what Positive Behaviour Support is.

Skybound works as a team all helping each other out! This week has been another great example of that! Alison, who works behind the scenes in the office sorting everything out from hotel and flight bookings to invoicing and payroll, this morning she took on another role of manning a makeshift nursery! This was because one of our team had a child who couldn’t attend nursery, but the team member wanted to attend a meeting this morning. Alison stepping in enabled the meeting to ...go ahead without any disruption to the child’s family or other professionals involved! Later this week someone else had a childcare problem and other members of the team have been able to juggle things around to ensure that she was able to manage the situation. These guys help each other out, work together to ensure that their clients’ needs are met but also that their own family needs are met. Balancing work and family life is hard but can be done with everyone being supportive! I know this is my second post about this recently, but I feel so passionate about it and this week has really demonstrated the culture of support we have developed here. Thanks everyone! Risca
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Vicci Tucci discussing her competent learner model- a curriculum which specifically programs for generalisation, with the end goal being learners who function successfully in novel circumstances. most of the CLRs (competent learner repertoires) relate directly to Verbal operants, for example: talker- mand/echoic/tact observer- imitation However, it also adds in Participator (non-directed actions and persistence) and Problem Solver.... #convergence2018
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Im back for day 2 of the convergence of human and animal trainers. First up Ken Ramirez discussing a number of different animal training projects, where he also had to train the humans to carry them out. projects included training dogs to count, training 10,000 butterflies to fly across a football field for a display and training elephants to migrate using a poacher free route. Interesting stuff and here are his take home points for working with humans within an organisation. #boardcertifiedbehaviouractivist #convergence2018