Increasing Child Safety and Injury Prevention matters because it changes what a BCBA notices when decisions have to hold up in case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Increasing Child Safety and Injury Prevention, for this course, the practical stakes show up in stronger conceptual consistency and better translational decision making, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Unintentional injury is a leading cause of death for infants and children. Although the specific causes of these deaths vary, a subset is the result of contact with dangerous stimuli. Along these lines, effort has been made to evaluate ways to teach children to engage in a safety response when a dangerous stimulus is encountered. Following a discussion of the need for safety skills and how safety skills are assessed, the presentation will review recent research on teaching individuals to demonstrate safety skills. Strategies for establishing a discriminated safety response, promoting a generalized safety response, and increasing the efficiency of safety response training will be presented. Recent research will be used to support recommended practices. Additionally, the presentation reviews two additional areas aimed at increasing safety—arranging the infant sleep environment and installing child passenger safety restraints. Learning Objectives Attendees will be able to describe the safety response children should demonstrate when they encounter a dangerous stimulus Attendees will be able to describe how to incorporate discrimination training when teaching safety responses Attendees will be able to describe ways to program for generalization when conducting safety response training
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| BACB® | 2 | General |
Dr. Jason C. Vladescu, Ph.D., BCBA-D, NSCP, LBA(NY), is the Founding Chair and Professor of the Applied Behavior Analysis Program at SUNY Downstate, as well as a Founding Partner at The Capstone Center. He completed his pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute.Dr. Vladescu is the co-author of Statistics for Applied Behavior Analysis Practitioners and Researchers and has published over 85 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His research interests include early behavioral intervention for children with autism spectrum and related disorders, increasing the efficiency of academic instruction, staff and caregiver training, equivalence-class formation, and mainstream applications of behavior analysis.He serves on the Science Board of the Association for Behavior Analysis International and is the current Editor-in-Chief for Behavior Analysis in Practice. Previously, Dr. Vladescu served as Associate Editor for both Behavior Analysis in Practice and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, and has been a member of the editorial boards for Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, Behavioral Interventions, The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, The Psychological Record, School Psychology, Behavioral Development, and the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. In 2020, he was honored with the B.F. Skinner Foundation New Researcher Award.Outside of his professional endeavors, Dr. Vladescu enjoys traveling, reading biographies and science fiction, playing pickleball, and indulging in his passion for pizza.
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