How To Help Autistic People In Japanese Culture

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1 Sakurako Tanaka PhD, BCBA- D President, Multicultural Alliance of Behavior Analysts (SIG) CEO, Green Patio Incorporated (Japan) Behavior Consultant (private practice) Board of Director, World Heritage Mt. Fuji Mountain Worship Preservation Society Address: Japan office 14-6, Kaigan-cho, Hakodate city, Hokkaido Japan Tel/fax [email protected] Website: (Japanese) Membership: ABAI, J-ABA, Neuro SIG, Multi-aba (SIG), Verbal Behavior (SIG), APBS Japan Psychological Association Education and Credential May 2011 Board Certified Behavior Analyst from Behavior Analyst Certification Board. # (BCBA- Doctoral) May 2010 Graduate Certificate program in Behavior Intervention for Autism University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Faculty of Graduate Studies Post Doctoral fellow Faculty of Education. Simon Fraser University. British Columbia, Canada Doctor of Philosophy. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Interdisciplinary (Law, Anthropology/Linguistics, Asian Studies, and Faculty of medicine (Psychiatry), The Ainu of Tsugaru: Indigenous History and Shamanism of Northern Japan 1993 Master of Arts. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Interdisciplinary Studies. Talking Through Text: Oral and Literal Interface in Japanese Storytelling, Rakugo. 1990

2 Bachelor of Arts. University of Toronto. Linguistics Certificate in Teaching English as a Second language. University of Toronto. June 2014 College and University teaching Lecturer, Introduction to ABA, for Psychology on Disability, Hokkaido Medical College, Ainosato, Hokkaido, Japan : Teacher, interpreter and translator - taught interpretation and translation study at Canadian International College and Arbutus College in Vancouver. 2000: Consultant - Department of Distance Education, University of British Columbia Teaching assistant and lecturer at University of British Columbia - taught courses includes introduction to language and culture (verbal arts), Japanese I and II, Ristumeikan-UBC exchange program core course, Indigenous history and culture of the North Pacific March 2014 Selected Seminars and Workshops related to Autism, Gerontology, and ABA Seminar on Introduction to ABA: from Autism to Dementia, Japan Rehabilitation College, Eniwa, Hokkaido December Seminar on Introduction to ABA, Hokkaido Dentist Association Hakodate chapter, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan March 2013 Seminar on Functional Assessment, Japan Rehabilitation College, Eniwa, Sapporo February 2013

3 Graduate Seminar, Functional Assessment and ABA, Hokkaido Medical University, Ainosato, Hokkaido May and June Seminars on Positive Behavior Support for the families and professionals in Fraser Valley, BC, Canada. Sponsored by Abilities Neurological Clinic, Surrey and Abbotsford offices. September 2-4, Seminar, Introduction to verbal Behavior approach Mirai Yochien (Inclusive Kindergarten), Kosiyama city, Fukushima prefecture; seminar on positive behavior support for the families and children after the March 11 th great Tohoku earthquake, Midori yoichien (kindergarten) in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture. September 24, Co- organised and presented Minna to Chigaukedo Daijoubu? (My child is different but is s/he ok?) Workshop for Japanese- speaking families with children diagnosed with autism and other developmental disorders. Richmond, BC. November 19, Co- organizer and co- MC for the workshop: Access to Support and Government Services for Individuals with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities. Consulate General of Japan, Vancouver, BC. Canada. Selected Publication and Presentation 2014 Selected Academic Publication and Presentation on ABA (please add to my more current papers) Tanaka, S Panelist presentations for UN HRC Panel event on Monday, 15 September 2014 on Protecting the Human Rights of Children. Tanaka, S. and Togashi K. Function- Based Behavior Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Japan: a Pilot Study, poster presentation at Association for Behavior Analysis Convention in Chicago, Il. Hughes- Fong, E., Catagnus, R.M., Tanaka, S., Yip, J., Matsuda, K., & Narang, P. (2014). Multicultural Alliance of Behavior Analysts: ABAI Special Interest Group, Poster presented at the Association for Behavior Analysis Convention in Chicago, Il. Matsuda, K & Tanaka, S. (2014) From Social Skills Training to Behavioral Cusps: Aren t we just having fun, Symposium at the Association for Behavior Analysis International Conference in Chicago, Il.

4 2013 Elizabeth Hughes Fong and Sakurako Tanaka Multicultural Alliance of Behavior Analysis Standards for Cultural Competence in Behavior Analysis, in International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy 2013, VOol 8, No. 2, pp Invited Symposium discussant to Japan ABA s annual convention at the University of Gifu, on Effective application of ABA to patients with dementia. "Evolution" of ABA- Based Autism Treatment Through Canadian Multiculturalism, Symposium Beyond Building- Blocks: Applying Behavior Analysis Across the Borders, Association for Behaviour Analyst International Annual Convention 2013 May 28, Minneapolis 2011 Bilingual Behaviour Intervention for Japanese- Speaking Children with Autism: A Pilot Study Using VB MAPP. Paper presented at ABAI Annual Convention in Denver, CO. May 30., Bilingual Intervention: Towards an Equation of Language to Behavior. Paper presented at ABAI annual convention in San Antonio, Texas, June 1, Selected Academic Publication related to Japan Furusato wa Uchu: Ainu no densho ni manabukoto (Home in Space: Teachings of Ainu Oral Tradition), in Mado (Window), Tokyo: Meiso- shuppan Culture and History of the Indigenous People of Northern Japan and four other entries in World History Encyclopaedia, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC CLIO Narrative of Hope: An Emergent Discourse Resulting from the Encounter between Canada s Native people and the Japanese. In Why Japan Matters! Vol. 2 Joseph F. Kess and Helen Lansdowne eds. Victoria: Centre for Asia- Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria. pp Ainu Shamanism and Tsugaru Shamanism in Shamanism: An Encyclopaedia of World Beliefs, Practices, and Culture. Mariko Nanba Walter and Eva Jane Neumann Fridman, eds. Harvard University

5 World Religion Studies Center project. Santa Barbara, Ca: ABC Clio Ainu Shamanism: A Forbidden Path to Universal Knowledge, in Cultural Survival Quarterly Issue 27.2 Cambridge, MA article.cfm?id= Sannnai Maruyama, the Origin of the Ainu and the Problem of the Historical Interpretation of 'Japan.' In Japan in the Global Age: Cultural, Historical, and Political Issues on Asia, Environment, Households and International Communication. Nakamura, M., Ed. Vancouver: Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia. PP Returning to Ainumoshir, a seminar held at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education in Hawaii at Hilo, Aia Na Ha ona iloko o Kakou: The Answers Lie Within Us, August 1-7. Bringing Home a Dragon: A Spiritual Cartography of Northern Tsugaru, In Proceedings of the International Congress, Shamanism and Other Indigenous Spiritual Beliefs and Practices, Moscow, Russia June 7-12, 1999: Books and Serials Bring Home Dragon- Belated Return of Tsugaru Ainu Fraser Journal Monthly. Coq., BC: Fraser Publishing Laila to midoriiro no houki (Laila and the Green Broom), Chuo Art Publishing, Tokyo 2001 The Ainu of Tsugaru: Indigenous History and Shamanism of Northern Japan. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI.