RLATE

Relational Language Training

Thank you for your interest in the Relational Language Assessment and Training Elements (RLATE)! The RLATE includes the Relational Language Assessment (RLA) and the Relational Language Training curriculum (RLT).

The following is a proposed training sequence for the RLATE. Hours may vary depending on the amount of practice and feedback you would like during training. The course is yours to curate according to the needs of your practice!

Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or if you would like to discuss further.

Duration

  • 20–30 hours (2 hours/session)

  • BACB CEUS available

Description

Train providers to implement relational language training programs. Sessions will cover the RFT research supporting relational language training as well as an overview of the RLATE curriculum. Practice and feedback opportunities will be available in each training session.

Training includes:

RLATE Training:

  • Introduction to the Relational Language Training (RLT) curriculum

  • Relational evaluation procedure (REP) and multiple exemplar instruction across learning modalities

  • Explicit instruction and frequency building

  • Differentially reinforcing derivation, complexity, flexibility, and coherence

  • Tracking emergent, generative language

Systematically training nonarbitrary relations:

  • Training nonarbitrary relations using multiple exemplars

  • Providing relational networks and questions that facilitate transitioning to arbitrary relational responding

  • Transitioning to arbitrarily derived relational responding

  • Identifying physical properties

  • Comparing relational networks across physical properties

Training arbitrary relations:

  • Directly trained and bidirectional responding

  • Directly trained and mutually entailed relations

  • Directly trained and mutually entailed relations + transformation of stimulus function (ToF)

  • Combinatorially entailed relations in linear relational networks

  • Combinatorially entailed relations in linear relational networks + ToF

  • Combinatorially entailed relations in nonlinear-same relational networks + ToF

  • Combinatorially entailed relations in nonlinear-mixed relational networks + ToF

Review and practice training nonarbitrary-to-arbitrary relational frames:

  • Coordination

  • Distinction

  • Non-Deictic Spatiality

  • Comparison

  • Hierarchy

    • Containment

    • Classification

    • Part-whole relations

  • Opposition

  • Temporality

  • Deictics

    • Spatial

    • Interpersonal

    • Temporal

  • Analogical

Training Listening and Reading Comprehension:

  • Temporality and functional sequencing

  • Conditional/causal relations

  • Derived ‘Wh’ questions

  • Part-whole relations

  • Identify key components of stories

Training Functions:

  • Fluent functions

  • Functions across context

  • Functions + sequencing

  • Different ways to…

Relate relational networks

  • Identifying relations

  • Compare function, feature, class

  • Flexible relations with two items

  • ToF + pictures

  • ToF w/o pictures

The RLT course will train providers to:

  1. Implement RLT programs

  2. Write goals for RLT programs

  3. Set up standard celeration charts for relational programs

  4. Measure progress

  5. Troubleshoot potential training issues and barriers

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