This course covers the following certifications: QBA, and IBA.

• QBA604 - This is the fourth course of six, 45-hour classes required for certification by the QABA ®
• IBA704 - This is the fourth course of six, 45-hour classes required for certification by the IBAO ®

This course will cover the additional 5 hours of Antecedent Interventions, 30 hours of Skill Acquisition Programming, and 10 hours of Behavior Reduction Interventions required under the QABA 2022 Competency Standards and Coursework Requirements.

Project: Behavior Change Project (100 points) : You will begin this project at the beginning of the course and will work on this project as you progress through the course material and readings. The project is divided into six assignments that can be uploaded as they are completed. All assignments must be completed before a certificate of completion is issued for this course. Please note this is a self-paced course and instructor feedback is provided asynchronously during weekdays. Instructors typically do not grade or provide feedback on assignments during the weekends so please plan accordingly. Students and instructors are also located in many time zones and regions, so again please plan accordingly if you have deadlines for completing this course.

The project will consist of selecting, developing, implementing, and evaluating a behavior change program/intervention for yourself (self-management program) or someone else (e.g., a friend, or family member).  You may elect to increase/decrease the frequency of an existing behavior, establish a new behavior, or some combination. You must use a functional assessment or preference assessment.  The behavior change procedure should incorporate and specify at least two basic principles of behavior such as reinforcement, additive procedures, instructional control, shaping, chaining, stimulus satiation, stimulus control, punishment, or extinction.  The student will document in the plan the seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis as described by Baer, Wolf, and Risley.

PLEASE REFER TO THE SUPPORT DOCUMENTS IN THE COURSE FOR THIS PROJECT.

The key components of the project are as follows:

(a) Select and Define the behavior(s) and developing the measurement procedures;

(b) Conduct  and Interpret relevant pre-treatment assessments,

(c) Collect  and Analyze baseline data and establishing behavioral objectives,

(d) Develop and implement the behavior change program, and

(e) Monitor and Analyze the results of the behavior change program.

Recommended Textbooks and Readings:

1. Cooper, Heron & Heward.  (2020). Applied Behavior Analysis 3rd Edition. Pearson Education Inc.,Hoboken, NJ.

2. Mayer, Sulzer-Azaroff, & Wallace. (2019). Behavior Analysis for Lasting Change 4th Edition. Sloan Publishing, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY.

3. Lovaas, O.I. (1987).  Behavioral treatment and normal educational and intellectual functioning in young autistic children.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55(1),  3-9.

4. Lindsley, O.R. (1995). Ten products of fluency. Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, 13, 2-11.  
5. Blackledge: (2003) An Introduction to Relational Frame Theory:  Basics and Applications. The Behavior Analyst Today, 3 (4), 421.

6. Lovaas, O.I. (1987).  Behavioral treatment and normal educational and intellectual functioning in young autistic children.  Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 55(1), 3-9.

7. Bondy, A., & Frost, L. (1994).  The picture exchange communication system.  Focus on Autistic Behavior, 11, 1-19.

8. Bondy, A., Tincani, M., & Frost, L. (2004). Multiply controlled verbal operants: An analysis and extention to the picture exchange communication system. The Behavior Analyst, 27,2, 247-261.