Special Education - Applied Behavior Analysis Certificate- GC

This course will give students a comprehensive overview of functional behavior assessment and intervention development. Behavior analysts are often tasked with developing interventions designed to change challenging behavior. Interventions based on a thorough assessment of behavior often yield the best outcomes. To this end, students will be exposed to a variety of non-experimental and experimental functional behavior assessment methodologies. Students will be taught how to select, develop, and implement functional behavior assessments. Students will also learn how to develop interventions based on the results and findings of a functional behavior assessment. A focus of this course will be on building upon the technical and theoretical skills obtained in previous courses, and then gaining extensive practice in applying these skills to technical writing. This course will also provide students the opportunity to obtain a certificate of FBA training sanctioned by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Autism Services (BAS) by completing the video training modules developed by BAS.

The Advanced Seminar in Applied Behavior Analysis will examine the multiple facets of behavioral research and practice issues. In addition, students will critically evaluate published educational current research in the field of autism, developmental disabilities, and educational practices, while attending to research design, methods employed, and experimental control. Faculty will present recently published, current, and ongoing research and contemporary topics through a series of seminars and workshops.