Improving Skills: Pill swallowing, medical cooperation, and functional behavior assessment implementation matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support. In Improving Skills: Pill swallowing, medical cooperation, and functional behavior assessment implementation, for this course, the practical stakes show up in safe, humane intervention that respects health variables and daily-life feasibility, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →This symposium will feature three papers on developing practical skills in three key areas. In the first paper, Catherine Devoe will describe a multi-component treatment approach to improve pill swallowing in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who have difficulty swallowing pills without chewing. In the second paper, Ronan Bustamante will present a study illustrating the use of integrating a demand analysis into a functional analysis to improve treatment efficiency. By identifying specific steps of a medical procedure that were associated with low cooperation, treatment was focused on these steps in individuals with ASD. In the third paper, Yoselin Hernandez-Avalos will outline a remote staff training method for teaching various parts of the functional assessment process, including conducting and interpreting indirect assessments, functional analyses, and then developing and implementing a brief treatment analysis. Samantha Hardesty will serve as the discussant, providing thoughtful commentary and suggestions for future research.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1.5 | General |
| COA | 1.5 | — |
Dr. Eileen Roscoe received her PhD in Behavior Analysis from the University of Florida under the mentorship of Dr. Brian Iwata. She currently serves as the Director of Behavior Analytic research at the New England Center for Children in Boston, MA. She teaches courses on Behavioral Assessment and Intervention and supervises Masters and PhD students’ research for the Applied Behavior Analysis program at Western New England University. She has published articles on a variety of topics, including preference and reinforcer assessments, functional analysis refinements, and treatment of problem behavior. More recently, she has initiated research on increasing engagement in leisure and physical activities. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) and as a board member for the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. She currently serves on the editorial boards for JABA and Behavior Interventions. She was a recipient of the B.F. Skinner Young Researcher award from Division 25 of the American Psychological Association.
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279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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