Individuals with trauma histories often feel on edge or misunderstood. As practitioners, it’s important to take trauma into account when designing behavior interventions for our learners. It’s our job to ensure we’re not only shaping behavior but taking an approach that focuses on long-term healing and empathy. Here, we discuss trauma-sensitive behavior interventions and how to incorporate trauma-informed care in ABA.
Dr. Camille Kolu is a behavioral scientist from Cusp Emergence in Colorado. She focuses on TIBA, or trauma-informed behavior analysis. We invited her on the podcast to discuss the role of trauma and behavior in ABA.
After our students learn to answer WH questions, the next step is to teach them inferencing skills. Understanding the hidden meaning in stories and social interactions can be challenging, especially for those on the autism spectrum. Here, we discuss the best ways to teach inferencing to these learners.
After our students learn to answer WH questions, the next step is to teach them inferencing skills. Understanding the hidden meaning in stories and social interactions can be challenging, especially for those on the autism spectrum. Here, we discuss the best ways to teach inferencing to these learners.
Attention-seeking behavior is everywhere. Here, we discuss the value of attention and effective strategies to teach requesting and gaining attention.
As BCBAs, part of our job is to target challenging behavior. Here, we discuss how to do so in a compassionate way so that our learners feel safe. Our conversation includes how reframe our perspective to a more compassionate approach, how to build trusting relationships, and how to make environments more enriching and fun.
Sequencing skills help learners with other skills, including how questions, before and after, telling stories, predicting, and remembering household tasks. So how can we use sequencing programs with our learners?
Many of our students struggle with initiating language and conversation. Because of this, we usually place a strong emphasis on teaching requesting, or manding, in an ABA program. Here, we discuss how we can teach manding with WH questions.
Chris Topham is a behavior scientist and the owner of Celeration ABA. Along with his wife, who is also a BCBA, Chris founded Celeration ABA in 2020. Here, Chris shares his background and how he became focused on precision-based teaching.
Teaching intraverbals can be hard, so we’re covering some of the best ways to teach intraverbals so we can set our learners up for success.
