Dear friends and colleagues, We are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of FTF’s Credentialing in Practical Functional Assessment (PFA) and Skill Based Treatment (SBT) of severe problem behavior. FTF’s credentialing provides professionals with an opportunity to verify their experiences with respect to the PFA and SBT process and receive recognition for their training,…
Originally posted on June 4, 2020. This is today’s ABA when starting therapy with an autistic person, especially one who routinely engages in problem behavior. Today’s ABA (applied behavior analysis) is about continually learning about the predilections of the autistic person being served so that preferred learning contexts can be developed en route to developing…
A special thank you to Partenariat d’apprentissage en autisme/Autism Learning Partnership, Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, New Brunswick (Canada) for their translation efforts that help us work toward our mission of world-wide dissemination of the PFA/SBT technology. Download the translated versions here: French Translation of Today’s ABA French Translation of The BHI Index
See below for the July 27th, 2021, presentation on the Behavioral Health Index (BHI) by Krista Boe of Acorn Health and Greg Hanley of FTF Behavioral. The BHI is an indirect and global measurement tool for assessing progress and regress with respect to programs addressing severe problem behavior. The presenters describe the impetus for the…
Special thank you to Sarah Cronk from Upstate Cerebral Palsy for developing these two infographics to help with their implementation of the Preschool Life Skills Curriculum. To download copies of these two infographics, please click here for figure 1 and figure 2.
Practical Functional Assessment and Skill Based Treatment (10 CEUs) FTF would like to thank Daria Brazhenkova, Lyubov Ostrovskaya, Tamara Solomatina, Ekaterina Krylova and Ekaterina Zavolokina for their extraordinary efforts translating the training materials for this course, thereby bringing FTF closer towards its mission of worldwide dissemination of the values and methods of Today’s ABA. FTF…
Joseph Dutkowsky, M.D. Clinician of the Year Award for 2021 This award exists to honor a clinician who has worked to positively change the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through their work within an CP Affiliate or related program. Honorees will be recognized based on their advocacy for health equity, commitment to…
Deutsches Practical Functional Assessment and Skill Based Treatment (10 CEUs) FTF dankt Sabrina Liebich und Catherine Picou für ihren außerordentlichen Einsatz bei der Übersetzung der Trainingsmaterialien für diesen Kurs, wodurch FTF ihrer Mission der weltweiten Verbreitung der Methoden und Werte der heutigen ABA nähergekommen ist. FTF would like to thank Sabrina Liebich and Catherine Picou…
A special thank you to Yuko Takayanagi, BCaBA, Naoko Inada, BCBA, & Yukie Kurumiya, BCBA-D for translating the Form for Designing IISCA and to Naoko Inada, BCBA, Yuko Takayanagi, BCaBA,& Yukie Kurumiya, BCBA-D for translating the Open-Ended FA Interview Click here to access the Form for Designing IISCA and here to access the Open-Ended FA interview…
Evaluación Funcional Práctica y Tratamiento Basado en Habilidades (10 CEUs) FTF agradece al Dr. Javier Virués Ortega, a Aida Tarifa Rodríguez y a Agustín Gonzalo Pérez-Bustamante Pereira por su extraordinario trabajo de traducción de los materiales de formación de este curso. Con ello, el FTF se acerca a su objetivo de difusión internacional de los…
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