Business as Usual: I Need My Structure!

Description

“Business as Usual: I Need My Structure!” offers 1.5 general learning CEUs. Participants will learn about the interplay between Skill-Based Treatment (SBT) sessions and Business as Usual (BAU), how to incorporate structured interventions into SBT, and how to pull the spirit of SBT into BAU. Your instructors for this course are Emily Kearney, AnnaMarie Stoudenmire and Penny Holloway.

About Your Instructors…

Emily Kearney, BCBA, LBA has been using the Sleep Assessment and Treatment Tool since 2015 and has engaged in a variety of self-study on the topic of behavioral treatment of sleep. She provides coaching and mentorship to newer practitioners and has implemented the SATT with a number of families, focusing on using the structured assessment to gather additional information needed to provide families with a comprehensive plan that is manageable and meets their family culture.

AnnaMarie Stoudenmire, MA, BCBA has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst since 2016, and lives in upstate South Caroline working with teens and young adults with autism. She has been implementing SBT since 2020 with older learners and learners with more advanced language skills.

Penny Holloway, MA, BCBA is a PFA/SBT Trainer at Behavior Interventions Inc, a company dedicated to serving families, supporting fellow team members, and collaborating with organizations that work with the families. Penny has worked in the autism field for 12 years, has owned a private school in the Netherlands for autistic individuals aged 7-18. Penny has been practicing Applied Behavior Analysis since 2017, earned her MA in Applied Behavior Analysis at Rider University and graduated in 2020 and also passed her board exam in 2020. She has worked in homes for 6 years and is passionate about providing compassionate, effective, socially valid treatment while empowering clients and their families. The main focus of Penny’s work is disseminating safe, compassionate, dignified, trauma assumed, assent based, effective treatment in which rapport, bringing joy and building skills are key elements in treating target behavior.

Learning objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Design an SBT package for a learner that includes UP, BAU and SBT.
2. Identify elements necessary for a BAU plan that involves customized use of existing technologies to support safety before the learner has developed the skills of communication, toleration and cooperation, and adjust as the learner moves through the SBT progress
3. Analyze their use of B-Mod technologies to ensure safety within SBT and customize those to embody the spirit of SBT
   Determine when to fade out those technologies as the learner develops skills that render them unnecessary.
4. Identify ways to provide variety within structure in BAU.
5. Identify component skills to target within BAU that support progress in SBT using DTT/PT

Published May 2023

The PFA & SBT Community is an Authorized Continuing Education Provider from the BACB® and IBAO®. Our BACB provider ID is OP-23-10256. For concerns regarding CEUs, you can contact us here.