Description

A free non-CEU webinar

Most SBT examples follow a familiar pattern: the learner leaves preferred items and transitions to the table for hard work. But what about the learner who will happily do 45 minutes of academics, yet escalates when a chair is moved, a game isn’t played their way, or a favorite item is suddenly unavailable? In this session, Hillary Laney and Emily Kearney explore how to adapt SBT for these less traditional situations. They cover how the SR and EO conditions may look very different, how to build CABs when there’s no “table,” and how to program ethically without targeting a learner’s rituals or stereotypy for reduction.

What is covered

• Why typical PFA/SBT examples don’t always fit learners whose problem behavior relates to control, rituals, novelty, or choice
• Contextualized vs. decontextualized SR and EO conditions, and when to add synthesized elements for safety or motivational distance
• Avoiding extra SR elements that complicate treatment or create new problems
• Ethical considerations: desensitization vs. safe escape and avoidance, accommodations vs. treatment, and deciding what’s worth targeting
• Adapting the treatment planning workbook: salient signals, skipping or repurposing CABs 1 and 2, time units of cooperation, and narrating aloud
• Common pitfalls, including programming by stimulus class, staff withdrawing too much, and using “freebies”
• Branch examples for “who’s the boss,” rituals and “just right” arrangements, access to stereotypy, avoiding or seeking novelty, choice, unavailable or unreasonable requests, and spontaneous requests
• When to target daily living routines that only happen once or twice a day

Meet the Hosts

Hillary Laney, BCBA, is a severe behavior consultant. A BCBA since 2015, she has implemented SBT since 2018 and now bases her practice entirely on it, overseeing implementations in schools, clinics, and homes with a focus on assent, dignity, and rapport. She is passionate about community-based learning and credits peer collaboration with shaping her own SBT practice.

Emily Kearney, BCBA, began learning the SBT process when it was still called denial and delay tolerance training. It gave her tools for learners whose behavior hadn’t responded to traditional interventions, which is what drives her interest in non-traditional applications.

Published July 2022