The development of applied behavior analysis as a recognized professional discipline is not a uniform global process. In many regions of the world, ABA has emerged from grassroots efforts by practitioners who received training through international programs and returned to their home countries to build professional infrastructure from the ground up — without the institutional support, licensure frameworks, and established training pipelines that practitioners in North America take for granted.
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Join Free →The Ukrainian Association of Behavioral Analysts is a young organization. It was founded by specialists who received behavioral education in VCS programs. The purpose of the organization is to create a professional society, a platform for the exchange of experience, and the development of the science of applied behavior analysis in Ukraine. Despite the fact that Ukraine was attacked by Russia in 2014, it was a time when the active formation of a professional community in Ukraine began. Now the number of behavior analysts is increasing, as is the number of specialists joining the association. The practice of the association members must meet the high level of quality of behavioral services and the code of ethics of behavioral analysts. Belonging to an association of specialists is a marker of the quality of practice. In Ukraine, families can receive behavioral services only in private centers. For example, in the ABA center of MIRACLE. The history of this center begins with Donetsk in 2013. It was the only ABA center in Ukraine. It served approximately 30 families. Since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the center was forced to close, and in 2015 it resumed its work in Mariupol. There, the areas of support for families of children with intellectual disabilities have expanded. More than 60 families received help in the center annually. In February 2022, this center was completely destroyed, but in August it resumed its work already in Kyiv. В Україні поведінковий сервіс родини можуть отримувати тільки у приватних центрах. Наприклад в АВА центрі ЧУДО. Історія цього центра починається з Донецька у 2013 року. Це був единий АВА центр на схлді України. Він обслуговував приблизно 30 родин. З початков російсько-української війни центр бум вимушений закритися та у 2015 році він відновив совю роботу у Маріуполі. Там сфери підтримки родин дітей з інтелектуальними порушеннями розвитку розширилися. У центрі знаходили допомогу більш ніж 60 родин щорічно. У лютому 2022 року цей центр був повністю зруйнований, але у серпні відновив свою роботу вже в Києві.
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
is a Founder of the Ukrainian Association of Behavior Analysts (UABA), President of UABA since 2019, M.Ed and BCBA. Also, she is a Founder of the charitable organization "Charity Foundation "ABAknovennoe Chudo" where she is working as a Clinical Director and supervisor of the ABA center "ABAknovennoe Chudo" since 2013. For over 15 years, she has provided evidence-based behavior analysis services in Ukraine. Now she is working as a researcher and Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Special Education of Masaryk University. Her research interests include issues related to parent training and organizational behavior management in autism treatment. She has presented his work at national and international conferences. For example, the 10th Conference of the European Association for Behaviour Analysis, 2022, The international congress on human, social sciences and arts, North Macedonia, 2022.
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