This is a recording of the 2024 Verbal Behavior Conference Panel Discussion, which I had the honor of moderating along with VBC founder, Kelle Rich. The participants included Drs. Patrick McGreevey, Eb Blakely, Alice Shillingsburg, Mirela Cengher, Hank Schlinger, and the incomparable Lina Slim.

As you'll hear, this was a lively conversation, and what I love about this event is that there was not only lots of audience participation, but we had tons of people chiming in from the BehaviorLive virtual feed.

In this panel discussion, we discussed the following:

• Dr. Patrick McGreevey's thoughts on mastery criteria.
• Dr. Eb Blakely's discussion of a case study for a learner who's reinforcers include signs of damage.
• Collaboration, rapport building, and consultation skills with public school teachers and SLPs.
• Considerations for manual signs vs. picture selection.
• Echoic skill development for children of non-hearing parents.
• Dr. Slim's thoughts on Gestalt Language Processing.
• Whether Standard Celeration Charting is making a comeback.
• And lots more!

If this kind of event sounds like fun for you, please consider joining us for the 2025 VBC. This year's VBC is taking place March 27-28 and will feature talks from Drs. Pat McGreevy, Tiffany Kodak, Judah Axe, April Kisamore-Hunter, Barbara Esch, and Caio Miguel. The day before the conference will feature a full day workshop from the aforementioned Dr. Barbara Esch.

The conference itself provides 13 CEUs, and when combined with Dr. Esch's workshop, it's 19 CEUs total.

As always, the in-person event is in Austin, TX. If you decide to go in person, expect to have many opportunities before and after the talks to interact directly with the presenters. It always amazes me how generous these folks are with their time.

If you can't make it to Austin, we'll certainly miss you, but the virtual experience provided by BehaviorLive is second-to-none. I think this comes through, again, as evidenced by the virtual audience's participation in these panel discussions.

If you want to check out all of Behavioral Observations' past VBC content, click here.

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