Practical Premack
Saturday, August 24, 2024
11 AM to 12:30PM EDT (USA and Canada)
11 AM to 12:30PM EDT (USA and Canada)
Learn how Premack’s laboratory-derived theory can help you and your clients expand your animals’ motivational menus. After reviewing real-life training applications of this scientific principle, you’ll be inspired to think about positive reinforcement more creatively.
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Meet the instructor
Kathy Sdao, M.A.
Kathy Sdao is an applied animal behaviorist. She’s been a full-time animal trainer for forty years, first with marine mammals and then with dogs. At the University of Hawaii, she received a master’s degree working with a research team that trained dolphins to understand sign-language. She then worked for the United States Navy training dolphins for open-ocean military tasks. Kathy also worked as a marine-mammal trainer at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma Washington. After leaving the zoo world, she co-created Tacoma’s first dog-daycare.
Kathy launched Bright Spot Dog Training in 1998. Services include consulting with families about their challenging dogs and mentoring professional trainers who want to maximize the power of positive-reinforcement training. Kathy is proud to be an original faculty member for Karen Pryor’s ClickerExpos; she’s taught at more than forty of these popular conferences. Kathy has lectured at venues across the United States, Canada and Europe, and in Australia, Israel, Japan and Mexico. In 2012, she published her first book, Plenty in Life Is Free: Reflections on Dogs, Training and Finding Grace.