Association for Behavior Analysis International

In 2006, the United Nations adopted the The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Developed in collaboration with people with disabilities, the purpose of the Convention is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities. However, people with disability still struggle to access appropriate communication, education, healthcare, recreation, and employment. Although behaviour analysts often work directly with people with disabilities and their families, few descriptions of a human rights-based approach to the provision of applied behaviour analysis services have been published. This panel provides an opportunity for behaviour analysts, some of whom have lived experience of disability, to engage in a meaningful conversation about the CRPD and human rights model of disability, why the CRPD is important to all behaviour analysts who provide services to people with disability and describe practical ways that BCBAs can align their professional practice with a human rights-based model of disability.

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