Episode 172: How to Teach Executive Functioning Skills
In order for children to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks, they need good executive functioning skills.
In order for children to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks, they need good executive functioning skills.
Let’s be honest, teachers have a lot on their hands in the classroom. So how, as BCBAs, can we help support them and gain teacher buy in to help our learners without putting more on their plates?
A member of our Bx Resource membership community raised a question about teaching receptive language skills, specifically teaching receptive labels, as the strategies she tried weren’t working. Here, we cover how to teach receptive language skills and discrimination to our learners.
Once we have a program in place for our learners, it’s important to ensure that we’re using the information we collect to make data driven decisions. Here, we discuss how to make the best data-based decisions to achieve progress.
Jenna Mazzillo is a BCBA and the owner of ABA Naturally. Through ABA Naturally, Jenna helps parents and teachers understand behavior. Here, she walks us through her background and what led her to develop her course. She shares what teachers need to know about ABA and some of the common challenges parents face.
We talk to Dr. Cody Morris about the challenges faced by ABA professionals and where they come from. Cody shares insights into how our field is in a growth stage and what improvements need to be made to help new BCBAs entering the field. We also discuss the importance of assent and how to properly obtain it, examples of assent in action, and advice for newly minted BCBAs.
We are so excited to have our friends from ABA Inside Track on the podcast! Here, Diana, Robert, and Jackie share all about their backgrounds and how their journeys led them to where they are today. They also share what inspired them to start their podcast and how it’s grown over the years.
Dr. Saul Axelrod is a professor emeritus of education at Temple University. We discuss bridging the gap between the research side and the clinical side of ABA, how the field has changed since Saul’s career began, and expanding the field beyond ASD.
Once you complete the assessment process, it’s time to set up programs for your learner. Here, we dive into how to know whether a program is effective and how to measure progress.
Schools require IEPs, or individual education plans, for all students who receive special education services. Here, we discuss how BCBAs should approach the IEP process.