Invited Speaker: #ItsNotBinary - Avoiding Black & White Attitudes in Practice & Life is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of case conceptualization, intervention design, staff training, and literature-informed problem solving. In Avoiding Black & White Attitudes in Practice & Life, 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 →In a world that feels increasingly binary, it is important to avoid such thinking when making treatment decisions. Sorting into black and white categories is emotionally comforting. Uncertainty is anxiety provoking. So making decisions that are either Yes or No feels more certain than Yes AND or No AND. There are great benefits to understanding the tendencies and resisting the impulse to overly categorize.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Amanda “Mandy” Ralston, M.Ed., BCBA, LBA, is a serial founder and CEO with more than 25 years of experience at the intersection of applied behavior analysis, autism services, and technology-driven innovation. She currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of KidsChoice Therapy, an Oklahoma-based provider of autism and pediatric therapy services, where she leads clinical, operational, and growth strategy following a recent investment partnership.As founder and CEO of NonBinary Solutions, Ralston spearheads the development of Clinical Decision Support Systems that help standardize how clinicians make treatment decisions while preserving their autonomy, with a focus on quality of life, outcomes, and neurodiversity-informed care. Across her career, she has built and scaled multiple ABA organizations serving hundreds of families and schools, earning recognition from the U.S. Small Business Administration and being honored as an Autism Innovator for her contributions to the field.A sought-after international thought leader, Ralston delivers immersive workshops and keynotes for academic institutions, executive teams, and creative communities, using playful, neurodiversity-affirming engagement to catalyze cognitive flexibility, collaboration, and innovation. She has served as a subject matter expert on global panels focused on ethics, outcomes, and practice in behavior analysis and continues to advise founders, funders, and providers on building sustainable, equity-centered autism and behavioral health services.
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