Introduction to ABA for Sleep Treatment

Description

“Introduction to ABA for Sleep Treatment” offers 2 general learning CEUs. This course discusses the behavioral conceptualization of sleep, familiarizes you with the Sleep Assessment and Treatment Tool and helps you understand ethical considerations related to sleep. Your instructors for this course are Hillary Laney, Emily Ice and Penny Holloway.

About Your Presenters…

Hillary Laney, BCBA, is passionate about providing services to clients with significant behavioral needs which prioritizes dignity, safety, rapport, and assent. She received her M. Ed from the University of Washington and has extensive experience as a practitioner and in supporting practitioners, agencies, and schools to provide more comprehensive services to those who need them most. Hillary currently serves as the Vice President of Functional Assessment and Treatment at Centria Autism. She is responsible for staff development and training oversight across the agency in the implementation of assent-based interventions including; Universal Protocols, Practical Functional Assessment, and Skill-Based Treatment. In the past year, Hillary has overseen the training of over 300 supervising clinicians and her team has supported over 300 successful Practical Functional Assessments. In her free time, she volunteers moderating the PFA & SBT Community, an online group of over 20,000 members, which provides free content for members to learn and grow in assent-based practice.  

Emily Ice, M.Ed., BCBA is the Executive Director at Step-In Autism Services and provides behavioral sleep mentorship and consultation. Emily’s doctorate research focuses on the behavioral conceptualization of sleep and analyzing contingencies affecting sleep. Since 2001, she has worked with families, children and adults experiencing developmental disabilities in-home and center-based settings. She serves as a board member at large on the Alaska Association of Behavior Analysts and is stepping into the role of a board member for the Colorado Association of Behavior Analysts in January of 2022. Emily’s passion is to empower Behavior Analysts to become sleep curators for their clients. She received her PhD in ABA from Capella in March 2023.

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. Participants will describe the behavioral conceptualization of sleep.
2. Participants will be familiar with the Sleep Assessment and Treatment Tool.
3. Participants will summarize ethical practice considerations related to sleep behaviors.
4. Participants will understand the role of behavior analysis within sleep treatment.

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

Accessibility information: This course is closed captioned in English and provides a transcript for all video content. For any other accessibility questions or concerns, you can contact us here.

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