One of These Things is Not Like The Other: Assessment & Curriculum becomes clinically important the moment a team has to turn good intentions into reliable action inside clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In One of These Things is Not Like The Other: Assessment & Curriculum, 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 →The industry of applied behavior analysis (ABA) relies on established resources to accommodate the limited funding restrictions of their payors. With individualization appropriately celebrated throughout ABA's history, systematic resources for intervention have been sparse. As such, it became a cultural practice for clinicians to turn to the only resource available for such interventions: assessments. Instead of teaching towards the test, clinicians have been teaching THE test resulting in the same instrument for both assessments and interventions. As such, so much of our industry's results have been measured when our independent variables are identical to our dependent variables. The current paper will address the harm we bring to our clients when we use assessments as curricula and implications around those data sets. It will also discuss the differing functions of assessments and curricula and best practices for separating the two.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Dr. Kerri Milyko came upon behavior analysis as a student of Dr. Henry Pennypacker at the University of Florida. Upon his encouragement, she forged a path that led to the University of Nevada-Reno studying under Dr. Patrick Ghezzi and then, as an entrepreneur opening precision teaching clinics in Tampa and Reno. Professionally, Dr. Kerri has started various ABA practices (Precision Teaching Learning Center; Agile Learning Solutions; The Learning Consultants), and has applied her behavior-analytic instructional design skills to a software company (CentralReach) where she worked with product managers in designing digital solutions for ABA providers. She now unites these skills as Vice President of Clinical Development at Centria Autism and Life Skills Autism Academy - not only creating products and systems to improve the service delivery of ABA, but working with clinicians to ensure the implementation and support of these products and services are sustainable in a large organization. Her primary behavior analytic foci are instructional and systems design, performance thinking, measurement and data analysis, and compassionate-focused applied behavior analysis. Finally, Dr. Kerri volunteers on various boards. In 2019, she was elected to serve 3 years on the Board of Directors for the Standard Celeration Society where she served 2 years as the Chairperson. In the same year, she was appointed by the governor of Nevada to serve on the first-ever Board of Applied Behavior Analysts to create ABA practice regulations for the state for licensure where she served as President in 2019. In August of 2021, she was elected as a Trustee of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. She actively serves on the Professional Standards Committee for CalABA and is the Teaching Behavior Area Coordinator for ABAI. Personally, Kerri values quality time with her three children, her husband, and dear friends. She loves wine and butter, true crime podcasts, and a good sci-fi novel while tinkering in her backyard.
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258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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