Tummy time — the practice of placing infants in the prone position during waking hours — emerged as a critical developmental recommendation following the American Academy of Pediatrics' 1992 Back to Sleep campaign, which dramatically reduced SIDS deaths but produced a corresponding rise in positional plagiocephaly, delayed motor milestones, and reduced opportunities for the prone motor development that tummy time provides. For applied behavior analysts, tummy time represents an entry point into early behavioral intervention grounded in human development research and medically significant.
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Join Free →The history of applied behavior analysis has strong philosophical, conceptual, and empirical roots in human development (Baer, 1993). Armed with the intellectual capital of our discipline, garnered over a period of more than 50 years, a small but active group of behavior analysts have embarked on lines of research to address a common but immutable component of caregiving—helping infants and parents tolerate and benefit from tummy time.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 0.5 | General |
Alyssa is a BCBA residing in Indiana. She has additional training in Nutrition and Trauma.Alyssa is passionate about health, wellness and the unique history of individuals to better apply a holistic approach to learning. Alyssa enjoys exploring topics that personally resonate with her, particularly those that intersect with her commitment to trauma-informed care and fertility. She is particularly interested in examining how trauma-informed practices can be integrated into ABA interventions, as well as how we can better train professionals to recognize and respond to the unique needs of individuals with trauma histories.Outside of ABA, she enjoys hiking and spending time outside with her husband, their 2 babies and their cat.
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