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The APF RBT Professional Development Units Library

What Is an IEP? Understanding Your Role in Special Education | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This training explains the legal foundations of IEPs in the United States, including IDEA, FAPE, and LRE, and clarifies the role of RBTs in implementing IEP goals, collecting data, and supporting students within school-based services.  

Free

Under What Conditions: Moving Beyond Absolutes in ABA | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This training emphasizes moving away from absolute rules in ABA and instead making clinical decisions based on context, client needs, safety, consent, and effectiveness, using

Free

Joint Attention: A Pivotal Skill for Learning and Connection | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This training explains joint attention, why it is a critical developmental skill, how it relates to social, language, and cognitive outcomes, and how behavior analytic, evidence-based procedures can be used to teach it.

Free

Understanding Parents: Stress, Emotions, and Daily Realities (PART 2) | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

Parents of autistic children experience stress, grief, confusion, and heavy responsibilities. RBTs must act with compassion, understand family challenges, and collaborate with BCBAs to support effective intervention.

Free

Understanding Parents: Stress, Emotions, and Daily Realities (PART 1) | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

Parents of autistic children experience stress, grief, confusion, and heavy responsibilities. RBTs must act with compassion, understand family challenges, and collaborate with BCBAs to support effective intervention.

Free

Deciding Whether to Target Stereotypic Behavior | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

RBTs must consider risks, benefits, topography, function, and supervision when deciding whether to target stereotypic behavior. Decisions depend on individual needs, ethics, and BCBA guidance.

Free

The Teaching Interaction Procedure: Effective Skill Building | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

The Teaching Interaction Procedure includes six steps (i.e., identify behavior, provide meaningful rationale, describe steps, demonstrate, role-play, and give feedback) and can be adapted to learner needs for effective social skill instruction.

Free

Using the Magic Number in Token Economies | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

The magic number is a flexible token-economy system where learners earn tokens for target behaviors and must exceed a revealed “magic number” to access reinforcement, allowing individualized, moment-to-moment decision making.

Free

Conditioning Reinforcers for Effective Teaching | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

RBTs often must condition new stimuli to function as reinforcers by making items fun, using varied play, following the child’s lead, and consistently observing preferences to build strong reinforcement systems.

Free

Building a Strong RBT Team | RBT PDU | 0.5

RBTs are key members of a collaborative team. Success depends on trust, open communication, clear roles, pride, caring, and following a process-focused approach to continuous improvement.

Free

Communication Temptations: Building Early Language | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

Communication temptations create fun, motivating opportunities for young learners to use spontaneous language by arranging the environment, choosing meaningful words, and reinforcing requests.

Free