ABA Journey with Amanda

Spring memories🌷🫶🏼🌅🐾

School lately📘😅

Learning about&practicing conducting preference assessments and functional analyses to determine potentially reinforcing stimuli and the function that is maintaining behaviour to support in the development of an effective behaviour change intervention.🤓📉

Also learning about interactions between behaviour function and psychotropic medication, behaviour analysis in education using the CABAS model, interventions for the treatment of dangerous behaviours, treating pediatric feeding disorders, and disability culture, including the rights of disabled people.🧠

June Self-Care☀️

Some important reminders to start your day🌅

Take what you need🫶🏼

Check-ins are important, especially with yourself!

I like to start each session with some type of check-in, so I can meet my learner where they are at🧸

Happy Tuesday🌵

Semester ✌🏼 done!

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April is autism acceptance month. Awareness, while important, focuses more on acknowledging the condition’s existence. Acceptance focuses on real people, recognizing their strengths, complexities, and individuality.💙

OMW to reinforce appropriate behaviours and work towards socially significant goals🫶🏼

First semester in the books!!📚

Wishing everyone a happy holidays and new years!🤍

I’ve been working with as a behaviour therapy assistant for the past 8 months⚓️ I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many amazing kiddos and families and learn from the extremely knowledgeable BCBAs!

This last session called for some jeopardy to review the Brainwise lessons we completed the past 10 weeks and some dinosaur fun. This kiddo shared they wanted to be a paleontologist so we put our skills to the test.🤓🦖 I love trying to incorporate ways to be creative and the kids interests into sessions to keep them engaged and having fun!🧠🧩