Bridging History and Progress: PECS, ABA, and the Path to Neuro-Affirming Care matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in caregiver coaching, home routines, team meetings, and values-sensitive decision making. In Bridging History and Progress: PECS, ABA, and the Path to Neuro-Affirming Care, for this course, the practical stakes show up in better alignment between intervention and the family context in which it must survive, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →As ABA therapy has grown in understanding so has the view of professionals to provide neuro-affirming and trauma-informed assent-based practices. ABA has a substantial amount of evidence linked toward supporting those individuals on the spectrum. Through this presentation, we review these evidence-based strategies while further speaking toward their need to adapt to a neuro-affirming approach and supporting the growth and independence of individuals on the spectrum.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Andy Bondy, Ph.D., has almost 50 years of experience working with children and adults with ASD and related developmental issues. For more than a dozen years he served as the Director of a statewide public-school program for students with ASD. He and his wife, Lori Frost, pioneered the development of the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). He designed the Pyramid Approach to Education as a comprehensive combination of broad-spectrum behavior analysis and functional communication strategies. He is a co-founder of Pyramid Educational Consultants, Inc., an internationally based team of specialists with offices in 16 countries. Each team consists of specialists from many fields working together to promote the integration of the principles of applied behavior analysis within functional activities, including an emphasis on developing functional communication skills. He currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the BOD for the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. He was the recipient of the 2012 Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis (SABA) Award for International Dissemination of Behavior Analysis.
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279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
200 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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