The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: The Provision of ABA Throughout the Years belongs in serious BCBA study because it shapes whether behavior-analytic decisions stay useful once they leave a clean training example and enter clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. In The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: The Provision of ABA Throughout the Years, for this course, the practical stakes show up in service continuity, accurate reporting, and defensible clinical decisions, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →The delivery of ABA services has changed dramatically over the past few decades, and all indications are that more dramatic change is on the way. Services look different now in terms of substance, location, and financing than they did just 20 years ago. ABA providers look different in terms of ownership and corporate structure than ever before. Legislatures are looking at non-clinical ownership of ABA companies. How will ABA services look 10 or 20 years from now? Join Lorri Unumb, Esq. for a discussion of the good, the bad, and the ugly of ABA service delivery.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Lorri Shealy Unumb is a lawyer, mother of three young adult boys, and an internationally renowned autism advocate. She began her career as an appellate attorney with the United States Department of Justice and then as a full-time law professor. Following her son’s diagnosis with autism, she began volunteering for autism causes, writing ground-breaking autism insurance legislation for South Carolina (“Ryan’s Law”) that passed in 2007 and served as the catalyst for the national movement toward autism insurance reform. She served for a decade as the national head of state government affairs for Autism Speaks and since 2019 as the CEO of The Council of Autism Service Providers. Lorri is also the founder of the annual Autism Law Summit, now in its 19th year, and is co-author of the law school textbook “Autism and the Law.” In 2010, she founded the Autism Academy of South Carolina, a nonprofit ABA center now known as The Unumb Center for Neurodevelopment. In 2025, she founded “Unumb Place,” a residential program for adults with autism.
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