Supporting Families and Caregivers Through a Highly Skilled Workforce: Training with Compassion to Produce Best Outcomes

• By: Jennifer Ruane, MS, BCBA, LPC, CDE Jennifer Flanders, MEd, BCBA, LABA Jill Harper, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA, CDE Melmark
• October 2nd, 2023
• behavior skills training, caregiver training, clinician-caregiver feedback loop, collaborative practices, compassionate care, cultural humility, evidence-based practices, Fall 2023 Issue, integrated treatment plans, interpersonal skills, lifelong learning, performance feedback, social validity, therapeutic relationships, treatment adherence
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Effective ABA services do not occur in isolation. We, as behavior analysts, are part of a larger team including those we serve, stakeholders, and other professionals. In fact, our code of ethics outlines that services provided extend to team members such as caregivers (BACB, 2020). While effective...

Autistics and Employment: Far Too Many Rivers to Cross

• By: Karl Wittig, PE Aspies for Social Success (AFSS)
• June 25th, 2021
• actually autistic, employment, interpersonal skills, soft skills, Summer 2021 Issue, unemployment
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For as long as I have known about autism, I have heard reports that autistics have the highest unemployment rate among all disability groups - or, for that matter, just about any demographic. Even at the time of my own diagnosis (late 2000), by which such milder variants as Asperger Syndrome had...