Back to School: Diving into the Practice of ABA in its Most Challenging Setting belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter home routines and caregiver-led implementation, school teams and classroom routines. In Back to School: Diving into the Practice of ABA in its Most Challenging Setting, for this course, the practical stakes show up in feasible school-based support, stronger collaboration, and better student participation, not in abstract discussion alone.
Provider: BehaviorLive — via Florida Association of Behavior Analysis
Take This Course →Including ethics, supervision, and topics like this one. New live CEU every Wednesday.
Join Free →Abstract: The science of behavior change, applied behavior analysis (ABA), was always intended to be a science for all. As the science and the field extending it have expanded into homes, communities, and centers, one environment still remains a formidable challenge for practitioners: schools. In this presentation, attendees will carefully examine the school environment and the variables specific to it that make it such a formidable challenge for RBTs, BCaBAs, and BCBAs. An emphasis will be placed on soft skills, behaviors, and repertoires that can help ABA practitioners successfully transition into school settings. Learning Objectives: 1) Participants will be able to define ecological variables and articulate their significance in school settings. 2) Given a scenario presenting varying levels of difficulty, participants will be able to identify and list appropriate assessment methods and tools for specific cases 3) Participants will learn to identify what terminology to use when discussing evaluations in different contexts, demonstrating an understanding of how language choices can impact the perception and interpretation of assessments.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
| COA | 1.5 | — |
| FL MH/PSY | 0 | — |
A past president of FABA (2019) Andrew has long enjoyed writing and is a coauthor of the book QUICK Responses for Reducing Misbehavior and Suspensions: A Behavioral Toolbox for Classroom and School Leaders and the sole author of The Lives of the Silent: Quiet Stories of Courage and Connection. He consults and speaks nationally and internationally, and he continues to pursue research with his colleagues at Florida Institute of Technology where he serves as the Director of Experiential Training. An avid surfer, paddleboarder, and bodysurfer, Andrew enjoys hiking, being in or on the water, as well as playing and watching several sports. Andrew has 2 sons, Preston and Kooper. He enjoys reading, movies, and walking the beach to see and photograph sunrises with his French bulldog, Poppy.
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