Contemporary Applied Behaviour Analysis (C-ABA) 5 Days, Primary & Post Primary

Course Description

The 5-day SESS Contemporary Applied Behaviour Analysis (C-ABA) course is designed to teach the skills necessary for the design, implementation, and evaluation of behaviour management programmes for use with individuals with mild, moderate, or intensive needs in a variety of settings. Behaviour management programmes focus on both the elimination of problem behaviours, and the acquisition and maintenance of replacement skills.

Anticipated Outcomes

Participants will learn to:

• Apply behavioural terminology correctly to specific behavioural episodes
• Collect data using appropriate technologies and procedures
• Chart data correctly using Excel
• Evaluate effectiveness of interventions using charts of data
• Identify and select effective reinforcers
• Identify functions of challenging behaviour
• Identify antecedent and environmental variables that may be effecting challenging behaviour
• Conduct and analyse effective ABC data
• Develop appropriate interventions for behaviour based on identifying function and analysis of antecedent and environmental factors
• Apply appropriate schedules of reinforcement for positive/replacement behaviours
• Construct task analyses for academic and social behaviours
• Complete a course portfolio, applying theory to practice in current classroom settings

Course Outline and Content

• Defining behaviour

• Behaviour data collection

• Identifying functions of behaviour

• Conducting ABC recording and data analysis

• Identifying effective reinforcers and application of appropriate schedules of reinforcement

• Increasing and maintaining desirable behaviours

• Reducing and replacing inappropriate behaviours positively

• Identifying antecedent and environmental variables that may be effecting behaviour

• Shaping and chaining academic and social behaviours

• Prompts, fading prompts stimulus control

• Understanding that behaviour interventions should be selected based on levels of least intrusion

• Maintenance and generalisation of appropriate behaviours

• Self-management strategies

Information for Applicants

An SESS Certificate of Completion is available to teachers who attend all 5 days of the course and complete the course portfolio as outlined above

The course is open to

• Teachers working in classes for student(s) with special education needs in a mainstream setting
• Teachers in Special Schools who are currently working with student(s) with special education needs
• Full-time Special Education Teachers who are currently working with student(s) with special education needs
• Participants will require permission from the Board of Management to attend. Typically, substitution for this seminar will only be allowed to classroom teachers with primary responsibility for students with a special educational need and if it is deemed absolutely essential by the Principal
• Typically substitution will only be allocated to non - substitute teachers
• Payment is not available to teachers in a substitute capacity

Refreshments and lunch will be provided.