Resources About Applied Behavior Analysis Autism

E-Book

Enhance Your Compliance Management With Digital Transformation

Learn how digitizing your compliance program will set up your organization for future ease and success...

E-Book

Your Compliance Check-In

Assess your compliance program against the recommendations from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) with our newest workbook...

Sample Course

Managing DSP Burnout

The job of a direct support professional (DSP) can be both psychologically and physically tiring, causing many in the field to experience burnout and ...

Webinar

Reskilling Your Front-Line Staff To Become RBTs

Join Relias to hear Rhonda Davin, BCBA-D discuss what’s needed to train current front-line staff to become RBTs...

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Introducing Relias’ ABA Family and Caregiver Training Courses

View this webinar to learn more about the importance of family in ABA therapy and Relias’ unique collection of e-learning content organizations can provide...

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Building a Unified Learning Experience in IDD/ABA

Learn more about platform improvements and how leverage them to deliver a better learning experience at your organization...

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Private Equity in ABA: What Providers Need to Know

While mergers and acquisitions in other fields of behavioral health have slowed, autism-related service providers are still in demand...

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BACB Changes for Supervisors: What You Need to Know

The Behavior Analyst Certification Board® has announced changes to training and qualification requirements for supervisors. Here's what you need to know...

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Welcome to the New World of RBT Readiness

On January 2, 2019, Relias is releasing its revamped training plan for Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs). Get a preview of the new courses...

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Increasing DSP Retention Through Peer Mentoring Programs

In this on-demand webinar, Arlene Bridges, an IDD business expert, gives you concrete steps that will help you develop better, more committed DSPs...

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To Manage Risk in IDD and ABA, Focus on Quality

While IDD and ABA organizations provide a variety of services, the potential for injury is significant because of the needs of the population served...

Research Studies

The Impact of Training Modalities on Registered Behavior Technician™ (RBT)® Exam Pass Rate and Job Readiness

This study explored what training modalities and length of training are currently being used and which are best at preparing staff to pass the RBT Exam and...

Webinar

Hiring, Developing, and Retaining Great People in ABA

Watch this webinar on how to manage people in a competitive ABA labor market. Sharpen your knowledge of best practices for building a great team...

Research Studies

Scenario-Based Training and Teaching Safe Eating Practices

This study explored the impact of online scenario-based training on direct support professionals’ implementation of safe eating and drinking practices with...

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Financial Discipline: Key Opportunities in Leading an ABA Organization

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Leading an ABA Organization: Developing a Leadership Culture

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Is Your School/Agency Ready for RBTs?

During this on-demand webinar, we review factors to determine if the RBT credential is the best next step for your agency or school...

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How ACT and OBM Benefit Your ABA Agency

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Training Front-Line Staff to Become RBTs

Sample Course

Maintaining Client Dignity through the Behavior Change Process

This sample course uses case studies and interactive situations to teach Registered Behavior Technicians how to approach behavior change interventions...

Course Preview

Supervision: Specifying Staff Performance Responsibilities

This course tackles the problem of getting front line staff to do what you need them to do to produce the most efficient learning clients...

Research Brief

How To Meet BACB Supervision Standards

If you are currently supervising frontline staff this white paper will walk you through all the applicable training and steps needed to become a BCBA ...

Research Brief

How To Become an Autism Insurance Provider

As service providers, we are experts in supporting children with autism. Unfortunately, we must also become versed in insurance – no easy feat...

Research Brief

Adjunct Professors: Preparing the Future of ABA Education

Ever wonder what it is like to take on the dual role of BCBA-Clinician and BCBA-Professor? We asked 28 adjunct professors questions about their experiences...

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The Autism Diagnosis

Autism is a general term used to describe a constellation of complex developmental disorders known as Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). PDD is like ...

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What is the VB-MAPP?

The VB-MAPP is a valuable component in designing a curriculum (intervention program) and can help determine if an intervention is working...

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Escape Behaviors

Escape behaviors occur when the student anticipates an unpleasant activity or item. This video reviews some helpful tips and strategies to prevent escape ...

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Error Correction

Error correction is a procedure used to increase motivation in learning situations by preventing mistakes and creating more opportunities for reinforcement...

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What is ABA?

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the application of behavioral laws to change socially significant behavior to a meaningful degree. Socially significant ...

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Autism Spectrum Disorders

According to the CDC, 1 in every 110 children and 1 in every 70 boys is affected by Autism Specturm Disorders (ASD). It is more common than diabetes, ...

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Differential Reinforcement

Decreasing Behavior Through Differential Reinforcement Procedures Problem behavior is often a way students communicate something. Using differential ...

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Examples of Tacts

The tact is a form of verbal behavior where the speaker sees, hears, smells, tastes something and then comments about it. The tact is often associated with...

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Keeping Instruction Time Reinforcing

This autism video reviews the characteristics of Asperger’s Syndrome and what they look like, along with interviews of people with Asperger's & their ...

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ABC Data Practice

ABC Data also known as Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence data is one of the essential steps in carrying out a Functional Behavior Assessment to determine why...

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Teaching Imitation to Help Build New Skills

Imitation skills Imitation refers to the emission of a behavior that is topographically similar and temporally proximal to the behavior of a model. In ...

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Errorless Learning

Errorless learning involves early and immediate prompting of the target, so that student response is sure to be correct. These immediate prompts guarantee ...

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Features of the Mand

This autism video discusses features of the mand in detail. The consequence of a mand is direct and specific reinforcement. This means that the speaker ...

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Teaching Listener Responding

Listener Responding is a form of verbal behavior that requires the listener to respond to another’s verbal behavior (e.g. Where is your shoes?, Get a ...

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Commonly Used Graphs in ABA

This video is an introduction of using graphs to chart progress in an educational or behavioral program. It reviews the basic components of a line graph (x...

Research Studies

Online Training Videos and Paraprofessional’s Behavior

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of an online training technology on the implementation of mand training on three paraprofessionals...

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Using Extinction to Decrease Problem Behaviors

ABA Training Video This type of extinction has nothing to do with animals species that don't live anymore! This extinction has everything to do with ...

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Echoic Behavior

Echoic Behavior The Echoic is a form of verbal behavior where the speaker repeats the same sound or word that was said by another person, like an echo. ...

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Positive and Negative Reinforcement in ABA

Autism Training Video What is the difference between positive and negative reinforcement? In this ABA training video, this most misunderstood behavioral ...

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Intraverbal Behavior in ABA

ABA Training Video The intraverbal is a form of verbal behavior where the speaker responds to another's verbal behavior (e.g. like in a conversation). ...

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Using Preference Assessments to Understand Motivation

Preference Assessments help us determine what motivates our learners. Knowing what motivates our learners helps us use these items and activities within ...

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Understanding Verbal Operants

The verbal operants are categories of verbal behavior identified by the work of B.F. Skinner and presented in his book, Verbal Behavior. The book proposes ...

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Receptive Language Programs for Early Learners

Early learners that need to learn receptive language skills could greatly benefit from these programs being introduced in a structured teaching formats as ...

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Chaining and Task Analysis

Each step is taught and mastered and then chained together using backward or forward chaining. Watch the teachers in this autism teaching strategies video ...