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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

The Big 4 in Everyday Practice | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This presentation introduces the “Big Four,” a framework for proactively teaching broad repertoires that can help children navigate situations associated with challenging behavior. The four areas are communicating wants, needs, and dislikes; gaining attention and connection; engaging meaningfully in play and leisure; and coping with or navigating adversity. 

Free

Recognizing Burnout and Strategies for Self-Care | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This presentation addresses burnout among registered behavior technicians, including warning signs, potential workplace contributors, and strategies for support. Burnout is described as physical, mental, or emotional exhaustion associated with prolonged or repeated work stress.

Free

Compassion in ABA - Part 1 | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This presentation examines what compassionate applied behavior analysis means in clinical practice and argues that compassion has long been part of high-quality behavior intervention. After reviewing differing definitions, the presenter emphasizes that compassion involves more than empathy: it includes actions that alleviate suffering and build useful skills that increase opportunities for reinforcement and meaningful participation. 

Free

Embedding Instruction Within Group Activities | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This presentation describes embedded instruction as intentionally providing direct or indirect teaching opportunities within activities, routines, and interactions that are already occurring. 

Free

Expanding Reinforcers: Engagement and Effectiveness | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This presentation reviews reinforcement and explains why RBTs should help learners develop broader repertoires of effective reinforcers. It distinguishes positive and negative reinforcement, unconditioned and conditioned reinforcers, and generalized conditioned reinforcers. 

Free

Teaching Eye Contact: Video Demonstrations | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This recording introduces teaching eye contact as a topic of debate in behavior analysis and then consists primarily of video demonstrations of interventionist–learner interactions. 

Free

Responding to Fad and Unsupported Treatments | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This presentation discusses how RBTs can respond when they encounter proposed autism treatments that lack adequate scientific support. The speaker contrasts science, pseudoscience, and anti-science, identifying objective measurement, systematic evaluation, experimental control, and replication as characteristics of scientific work. 

Free

Learning Opportunities, Part 1: Seeing the Opportunity | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This first presentation on learning opportunities encourages RBTs to recognize teachable interactions beyond formal instructions and discrete teaching trials. A learning opportunity is described through the context or antecedent, the learner’s response, the consequence that follows, and the possible effect on future responding. 

Free

Learning Opportunities, Part 2: Applying the Framework | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This second presentation extends the discussion of learning opportunities with classification exercises and examples across daily routines and age groups. The presenter revisits the distinction between contrived opportunities, deliberately arranged by an adult, and captured opportunities, which emerge naturally during an activity. 

Free

Shaping: Recognizing and Reinforcing Approximations | RBT PDU | 0.5 Hour

This presentation explores shaping as a reciprocal process in which the learner’s behavior and the interventionist’s moment-to-moment decisions jointly influence progress. Through fictional teaching examples, the presenter asks RBTs to identify which changes in responding approximate an individualized target, deliver reinforcement at useful times, and decide whether to maintain, advance, or revisit an expectation. 

Free