Telehealth delivery of behavior analytic services has moved from an emergency adaptation during the COVID-19 pandemic to an established service modality with its own growing evidence base. For BCBAs who work with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), telehealth offers a means to extend the reach of functional communication training, caregiver coaching, and professional supervision to populations and settings that would otherwise be underserved or unreachable.
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Join Free →There is a growing body of evidence supporting the use of telehealth to provide training in behaviour analytic interventions to parents and professionals and researchers have begun to focus on international demonstrations of this model. Given the recent changes to the BACB international credentialing and lockdowns imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic, this is a very pertinent area of research. Two studies will be presented within this webinar. Firstly, Emma will discuss the effectiveness of brief functional analysis (FA) and functional communication training (FCT) delivered through telehealth. Interventionists were trained to fidelity using didactic training to implement a brief FA through support via live coaching from a BCBA. Upon identification of behaviour function, FCT training was implemented to target the decrease of elopement, aggression and disruption in children with ASD. Secondly, Jenny will present her findings from her study designed to upskill parents, and provide them with methods to increase social communication behaviour across verbal operants. Two parent child dyads were trained to increase mand, tact and intraverbal behaviour during play. Parents displayed increases in fidelity for each strategy and viewed training favourably. Both children showed gains across verbal operants, as captured by a multiple baseline across behaviour design. An overall discussion of advantages of ABA-based interventions delivered through telehealth will be offered alongside tips for implementation.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
Dr Emma Craig is a BCBA-D originally from London but lives and works in Northern Ireland. Emma completed her PhD in ABA at Queen’s University Belfast in 2021 where her research focused on training professionals working with individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in behaviour analytic interventions via telehealth. Emma has been working with individuals with ASD for 10 years and now delivers interventions internationally in Pakistan, Australia, Greece, and Italy. Emma also works face-to-face with individuals based in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Emma is passionate about disseminating the science of ABA across the world and in rural areas where access to services is limited.
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