A Short Story About Cultural Competence in Practice is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of clinic sessions and day-to-day service delivery. 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 →As behavior analysts, we have a great deal of responsibility as autism treatment developers and providers to the people that we serve. Chief among our responsibilities is the ethical and compassionate treatment of the families that we serve, and a dedication to scientifically robust treatment interventions. One other important feature to practice that has recently settled in the forefront of our field's consciousness is a dedication to cultural competence. In this presentation, I will present research on bilingualism in autism treatment and on training cultural clinical competence in graduate students. I will discuss the role of verbal behavior in cultural competence in research and practice.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Lechago – Biography Dr. Sarah Lechago is a Professor in the Behavior Analysis master’s program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL). She directs the UHCL Verbal Behavior Clinic (VBC) and co-directs the UHCL Connecting the Dots (CTD) program. Her research interests include verbal behavior, student and caregiver training, motivating operations, and diversity, inclusion, and equity. Dr. Lechago serves as the founder and chair and is currently the co-chair of the Texas Association for Behavior Analysis (TxABA) organization’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Everyone (EDIE) committee. She has published in numerous journals including the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Journal of the Applied Behavior Analysis, and The Analysis of Verbal Behavior. She founded and currently directs a research lab called Behavior Analysts for Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (BADIE) through which she directs various initiatives with the graduate students in the lab. One primary initiative is the BADIE lab High School Dissemination and Mentorship program, through which they provide mentorship in behavior analysis to high school students and provide training and supports to high school teachers in the Houston area. She and her students also provide training and supports to teachers, professionals, and parents on autism treatment who reside in border towns between Texas and Mexico. She approaches instruction, research, and clinical supervision from a scientific and equity-minded perspective.
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280 research articles with practitioner takeaways
279 research articles with practitioner takeaways
258 research articles with practitioner takeaways
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