CAB 6 Branch Design

About Your Presenters…

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.

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.

Learning objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. Identify different ways to design CAB6 steps depending on branch and learner idiosyncrasies
2. Identify key considerations when selecting “ challenges”
3. Assess when to include CAB6 components throughout the whole chain
4. Discriminate when to run a branch versus when to add it as a challenge
5. Identify general CAB6 considerations
6. Identify how to select CAB6 challenges
7. Identify different examples of CAB6
8. Describe shaping the difficulty of CAB6
9. Identify incorporating components (Inventory of Good Learning Repertoire-IGLR, Steve Ward) into CAB6
10. Discriminate between a backwards design of CAB6 followed by forward design

Published May 2023