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Canvas ABA Art

Canvas ABA-Art Curriculum
2nd Edition

Creative Class

Join us in unleashing creativity & connection

The Canvas Program is designed to provide a robust and inclusive framework for fostering creativity, communication, self-expression, and flexibilty in children, ages 2 and up.

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  • Provides a Global Assessment to test for socially important skills, including areas of flexibility and creative behavior.

  • Program that targets skills such as communication, engagement, social, and derived relational responding.

  • Robust data collection system from assessment to treatment to guide ABA therapy and ensure meaningful outcomes.

  • Important guide for non-creative clinicans to implement effectively and fosters every child's autonomy.

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Here's what you will find:

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Prioritization of The Domains of Creative Expansion

From assessment to treatment, Canvas now provides a fine-tuned and effective way to test and program for increasing all learners' abilities within the domains of creative expansion. Canvas now will include an expanded guide on the domains, their correspondence to developmental milestones and relational frames, an improved assessment process, and updated programming categorized by the domains.

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Improved RFT Focus Across Entire Program

Testing and goal-setting is now even more effective with our new approach, where program targets as well as Expand Lessons help you better identify what frames are being targeted and how to monitor, aligned to the domains of creative expansion.

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Comprehensive Expand Lessons

Improved Modality Options The 2nd Edition features an expanded range of our Expand lessons with improved modality options. Exach lesson will now provide an approach that allows you to customize each lesson by age-group and support need.

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New Data Collection System

Our new data collection system targets skills across the domains and aligned to developmental milestones. Revised global assessment, caregiver report, creative domains of expansion assessment, and Canvas program target assessment.

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Art Class

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Full-Color Assessment Materials

The 2nd Edition includes full-color assessment materials, making the assessment process more engaging and accessible for children. These vibrant materials help maintain interest and support accurate evaluations.

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Revised Canvas Program Targets

Aligned to US National Art Education Guidelines & Canvas’s Domains of Creative Expansion Our program targets have been revised to align with the latest US national art education guidelines and the Canvas’s Domains of Creative Expansion. This alignment ensures that our curriculum is both current and comprehensive, supporting the highest standards of art education. Additionally, you get a Canvas Program Target guide that identifies how to apply each target into a program, its mastery criteria, and what area of domains and relational frames that it is teaching!

A peek into the changes...

While these are not the final design, you can see how things have changed. Note that this is just a few examples of the things that are in the newer edition. We are excited for the updated version!

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Why Canvas?

We have spent a generation teaching children with disabilities to label and ask for things. We chase after academic goals or medical necessity. What about skills that touch on the more human side of life?

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The dreams, the emotions, the joy, the creativeness.

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These make us who we are.

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We have all seen the rigid thinking, the lack of creativity, or the lack of spontaneous joy and expression.

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It is time for more than generic skills. Embedding training during the day is great, but what about making the day more than stumble through and catch the moments? What if we used Art as the medium to expand creativity, language, leisure expansion or social engagement?

Canvas Curriculum Overview

The Philosophy Behind Art Behavior

“The main thing is not just putting paint on canvas. It’s putting it on in such a way that it will be pleasurable, satisfying, beautiful, or reinforcing.” - B.F. Skinner

Creative thinking is not only an essential skill that helps open access to other resources in their community but brings value to the world. B.F. Skinner has spoken on the need for cultivating artists in our world.

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Read or listen to his talk at Guggenheim museum here>

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Dr. Jonathan Tarbox, BCBA-D, PhD., University of Southern California

“This resource is essential for professionals who want to make the delivery of their applied behavior analytic treatment more creative, flexible, and fun.”
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