Extended ABA Training Course

Lesson 1 • Principles of Punishment and Extinction

Covers positive and negative punishment and extinction procedures. Establishes ethical boundaries and expected behavioural effects.

Lesson 2 • Stimulus Control and Generalisation

Explains how stimuli gain control over behaviour through discrimination training. Introduces generalisation and maintenance as treatment goals.

Lesson 3 • Core Concepts and Terminology

Defines behaviour, environment, antecedent, and consequence. Builds the shared vocabulary required for all subsequent ABA coursework.

Lesson 4 • Principles of Reinforcement

Explains positive and negative reinforcement and their effects on behaviour. Connects reinforcement theory to practical intervention design.

Lesson 1 • Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks

Applies structured frameworks to resolve ethical dilemmas encountered in practice. Builds confidence in navigating complex professional situations.

Lesson 2 • Informed Consent and Assent

Teaches procedures for obtaining and documenting informed consent from caregivers and assent from clients. Protects client rights throughout the treatment process.

Lesson 3 • Supervision Structure and Competency

Covers models of effective supervision, feedback delivery, and trainee competency evaluation. Prepares practitioners to develop and support supervisees.

Lesson 4 • Core Ethical Principles in ABA

Covers beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, and justice as applied to ABA practice. Establishes the ethical foundation for all clinical and supervisory decisions.

Lesson 1 • Dimensions of Behaviour Measurement

Introduces frequency, duration, latency, and intensity as measurable dimensions. Connects each dimension to specific clinical questions.

Lesson 2 • Interobserver Agreement

Teaches calculation and interpretation of interobserver agreement metrics. Ensures data reliability across multiple observers.

Lesson 3 • Continuous and Discontinuous Recording

Contrasts event recording with interval and time-sampling methods. Guides selection of the most appropriate system for each behaviour.

Lesson 4 • Graphing and Visual Analysis

Introduces line graphs, cumulative records, and bar charts for behavioural data. Develops the ability to interpret trends and variability visually.

Lesson 1 • Logic of Single-Case Methodology

Explains the rationale for within-subject experimental control in ABA research. Distinguishes single-case designs from group comparison studies.

Lesson 2 • Multiple Baseline Designs

Teaches staggered introduction of intervention across behaviours, settings, or participants. Provides experimental control without requiring behavioural reversal.

Lesson 3 • Reversal and Withdrawal Designs

Covers ABAB and withdrawal designs for demonstrating functional relationships. Addresses when reversal is appropriate and when it is contraindicated.

Lesson 4 • Visual Analysis and Effect Evaluation

Applies systematic visual analysis criteria to evaluate data across phases. Connects research interpretation skills to evidence-based clinical decisions.

Lesson 1 • Functional Analysis

Teaches experimental manipulation of antecedents and consequences to confirm behaviour function. Represents the gold standard for identifying maintaining variables.

Lesson 2 • Indirect Functional Assessment

Uses interviews and rating scales to generate hypotheses about behaviour function. Provides a low-cost starting point before direct assessment.

Lesson 3 • Descriptive Functional Assessment

Applies direct observation in natural settings to identify antecedent-behaviour-consequence patterns. Strengthens hypotheses generated from indirect methods.

Lesson 4 • Preference and Reinforcer Assessments

Covers structured methods for identifying preferred stimuli and potent reinforcers. Ensures interventions use motivationally relevant consequences.

Lesson 1 • Generalisation and Maintenance Programming

Applies strategies to promote skill use across people, settings, and materials. Ensures acquired skills persist after formal instruction ends.

Lesson 2 • Naturalistic Teaching Strategies

Covers incidental teaching, natural environment training, and pivotal response training. Promotes generalisation by embedding instruction in everyday routines.

Lesson 3 • Discrete Trial Training

Covers the structure of discrete trials including instruction, prompt, response, and consequence. Establishes the foundational teaching format used across ABA programmes.

Lesson 4 • Shaping and Chaining

Teaches differential reinforcement of successive approximations and task analysis methods. Enables teaching of complex behaviours not yet in the learner's repertoire.

Lesson 1 • Skinner's Verbal Operants

Defines mand, tact, echoic, intraverbal, and listener behaviour as functional units. Provides the conceptual framework for language-based ABA programming.

Lesson 2 • Mand Training Programmes

Teaches systematic procedures for establishing and expanding requesting behaviour. Prioritises mand training as the foundation of communication intervention.

Lesson 3 • Social Communication and Conversation Skills

Addresses joint attention, conversational turn-taking, and social language use. Bridges verbal behaviour programming to functional social interaction.

Lesson 4 • Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Introduces picture exchange, speech-generating devices, and sign language as AAC options. Connects AAC selection to learner profile and communication goals.

Lesson 1 • Writing Behaviour Intervention Plans

Guides construction of complete, data-driven behaviour intervention plans. Integrates assessment findings, goals, procedures, and monitoring systems.

Lesson 2 • Function-Based Intervention Logic

Connects functional assessment outcomes to intervention strategy selection. Ensures treatment addresses maintaining variables rather than surface behaviour.

Lesson 3 • Differential Reinforcement Procedures

Covers DRO, DRA, DRI, and DRL as reinforcement-based reduction strategies. Provides alternatives to punishment that build adaptive replacement behaviour.

Lesson 4 • Antecedent Modification Strategies

Teaches environmental and instructional modifications that reduce behaviour before it occurs. Reduces reliance on reactive consequence-based procedures.