West African Applied Behavior Analysis Certificate
Class Schedule
WEEK ONE OF JANUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- DSM-IV and DSM-V (or current DSM) are related to autism spectrum disorders.
- CDC risk factors and comorbidities related to autism spectrum disorders.
- Developmental milestones (e.g., typical, and atypical, age appropriate)
- Autism diagnostic process
End of month test/homework for rotating Students
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC B: ASSESSEMENT
WEEK TWO OF JANUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Types of preference and reinforcement assessments (i.e., limitations and benefits, implementation)
- Components of functional behavior assessment (e.g., including direct (descriptive) and indirect assessments and their advantages and limitations, definition, and components of an FBA)
- Behavior assessment scales (interviews and scales)
- Conditional probability components
- Environmental analysis components
- Criteria for operational definitions
- ICF
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC C-DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
WEEK TWO OF JANUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Types of measurement (e.g., frequency/rate, duration, force/magnitude, response latency, and inter-response time)
- Types of ABA graphs
- Data collection methods
- Continuous vs. discontinuous measurement systems (e.g., partial interval recording, whole interval recording, momentary time sampling), – Scatter plot, PDO
End-of-month test for rotating Student
WEEK THREE OF JANUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Types of IOA (e.g., total count IOA and trial-by-trial IOA)
- Visual Analysis (e.g., trend, level, and variability)
- Characteristics of trustworthy measurements (e.g., reliability, accuracy, and validity)
[I] End of month test for rotating Students
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC D: LEGAL, ETHICAL, AND PROFESSIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
WEEK FOUR OF JANUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- QABA Code of Ethics
- HIPAA regulations (e.g., confidentiality including limitations, mandated reporting, reportable documents, duty to warn vs. duty to protect)
- Educational Laws (e.g., IDEA, LRE, IEP, ADA, Rehabilitation ACT, 504 Plan)
- Positive Behavior Supports
- Person-centered planning
- Methods of collaboration (e.g., treatment adherence, referral methods)
End-of-month test/homework for rotating Students
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC E: CORE PRINCIPLES OF APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
WEEK ONE OF FEBRUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Four team contingencies
- Respondent behavior vs. operant behavior
- Stimulus (e.g., stimulus control, discriminative stimulus, stimulus delta, SD-p, generalization, discrimination, response)
- Motivating operations including satiation and deprivation.
- Dead man’s test
- Reinforcement and punishment (e.g., positive, and negative)
- Matching law (e.g., rate, magnitude)
End-of-month test/homework for rotating Students
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC F -ANTECEDENT INTERVENTIONS
WEEK TWO OF FEBRUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Antecedent strategies (e.g., priming, choices, behavior momentum, visual supports, Premack Principle, environmental modifications)
- Non-contingent reinforcement procedures
- Functional communication training
- Effects of setting events
End-of-month test/homework for rotating Students
WEEK THREE OF FEBRUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Conditioned vs. unconditioned reinforcers/punishers.
- Basic schedules of reinforcement (e.g., fixed interval, fixed ratio, variable interval, and variable ratio)
- Risks to extinction procedures (e.g., an extinction burst, spontaneous recovery and resurgence)
- Basic verbal operant (e.g., Mand, tact, echoic, and intraverbal)
- Scientific understanding: description, prediction, and control
- Six attitudes of science
- Seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC F -ANTECEDENT INTERVENTIONS
WEEK FOUR OF FEBRUARY 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Antecedent strategies (e.g., priming, choices, behavior momentum, visual supports, Premack Principle, environmental modifications)
- Non-contingent reinforcement procedures
- Functional communication training
- Effects of setting events
End-of-month test/homework for rotating Students
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC G – SKILL ACQUISITION PROGRAMMING
WEEK ONE OF MARCH 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Goal Writing criteria (e.g., objective measurable mastery criteria, targets)
- Social/cultural factors necessary for program success
- Error correction methods
- Prompts (e.g., hierarchy, procedures, fading, types, prompt dependency)
- ABA instructional and educational methodologies
- Pivotal Training
End-of-month test/homework for rotating Students
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC H – BEHAVIOR REDUCTION INTERVENTION
WEEK TWO OF MARCH 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Components of behavior intervention plans
- Components of token economies (e.g., backup reinforcers, generalized reinforcers, response-cost, ratio strain)
- Time-out procedures
- Differential reinforcement procedures
[i] End of month test/homework for rotating Students
WEEK THREE OF MARCH 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Behavior contrast
- Functional assessments and functions of behaviors
- Group contingencies
- Components of contingency contracts
- Ethical considerations related to behavior reduction interventions (e.g., extinction, time-out procedures, group contingencies, punishment procedures)
End-of-month test/homework for rotating Students
WA-ABA-Cert: TOPIC I – TRAINING AND SUPERVISION WEEK FOUR OF MARCH 2024
Schedule: Monday & Tuesday 5.00 to 7.30 pm GMT +1(West African Standard Time)
- Monitoring treatment and procedural integrity
- Observer drift and reactivity
- Inter-observer agreement validation methods
- Training procedures and behavior skills training
- Performance evaluation (e.g., feedback, documentation, continuous support) and Dr. Ed’s Evaluation protocol
- Coordination of care (e.g., parent training, collaboration, liaison, communication in laymen’s terms)
- Sociocultural values (considerations)
End-of-month test/homework for rotating Students
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- ONE-WEEK PRACTICUM POSTING
[With ITC-ABA Treatment and Mentorships Network Programs]
- ONE WEEK PREP AND END-OF-COURSE CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION FOR STUDENTS COMPLETING THEIR PRACTICUM POSTING.
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