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| Public School Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs): Challenges and Solutions |
| Friday, May 24, 2024 |
| 4:00 PM–7:00 PM |
| Marriott Downtown, Level 4, Franklin Hall 12-13 |
| Area: EDC; Domain: Service Delivery |
| CE Instructor: Laura Kenneally, Ed.D. |
| LAURA KENNEALLY (Advance Learning Center) |
| Description: Public school BCBAs provide a range of services from assessment, curriculum, personnel training, behavior management implementation, and evaluation. BCBAs are challenged to implement these evidence-based practices because their role, responsibilities, and our field is often misunderstood. BCBAs are expected to magically fix challenging behavioral problems with immediate, effective, and low-cost simple solutions. In addition, BCBAs often wrestle with an endless list of tasks, ethical dilemmas, and limited resources which can be socially isolating, overwhelming, and cause professional burnout. |
| Learning Objectives: (1) The participants will be able to define and demonstrate shaping and use of the feedback to others to create behavior change. (2) The participants will be able to define the role of the public school BCBA and address ethical issues. (3) The participants will be able to define burnout and create solutions to reduce or prevent it. |
| Activities: This workshop includes lecture, small group instructional and hands-on successful strategies to help BCBAs define their responsibilities and roles, practice behavior skills training, address ABA “buy in”, improve personnel training, and build support networks. |
| Audience: This workshop is designed for BCBAs, special educators, and administrators to understand the role and responsibilities of the BCBA and how to create effective behavior change in public school. |
| Content Area: Practice |
| Instruction Level: Intermediate |
| Keyword(s): autism, ethics, public schools, staff training |