Association for Behavior Analysis International

It's not a matter of whether or not new digital technologies will revolutionize education--they are, have, and will continue to do so. Digital education is not just another fad or reform; it signals a major phase change in transforming teaching and learning. Tremendous synergy exists between disruptive developments such as personalized learning (individualizing education not just for instruction but also interest), learning analytics (using formative and summative evaluation to determine what works from students to schools), online, hybrid, and blended delivery models (which promotes greater instructional reach), gaming technology (the clear use of levels, badges, mastery, and goals in learning), and much more. Will behavior analysis add to innovation and lead early adoption, or simply follow along with the majority, or even lag behind? Tremendous opportunities exist for behavior analysis to lead and support vital change, and this conference offers an exceptional opportunity for behavior analysts to both learn about and learn how to transform education.

Anyone interested in learning about digital education.

Current models for teaching and learning have traditionally left many students underserved. Technology provides the opportunity to reimagine learning in ways that can adapt and personalize learning to the needs of all students and teachers. However, in order for that to happen some pieces of the digital puzzle still need to be aligned, including increased connectivity and access, new approaches to measuring effectiveness of technology tools, and new ways to use data to help teachers, students, and parents make better decisions about each child?s educational pathway. Mr. Culatta will discuss the work underway at the U.S. Department of Education to address these issues and offer recommendations to the field on where and how new solutions are needed to provide all students with engaging, personalized learning.

Psychologists, behavior analysts and educators interested in increasing the use of technology for education.

The Technology Showcase will provide a venue for conference attendees to learn about innovative technologies relevant to behavior analysis and education. Each featured Technology Developer will have an opportunity to present information about their product and its relevance to behavior analysis and education, in this session that is open to all attendees. Cash bars will also be available.

The Autism Curriculum Encyclopedia (ACE) is the culmination of 40 years of research and practice conducted at The New England Center for Children (NECC), a leader in the fields of ABA and autism. The ACE provides an interactive database containing assessment tools, lesson plans, teaching materials, and student performance reports for over 1,500 skills drawn from the curriculum used at NECC. The ACE is designed to provide teachers, administrators, BCBAs, and school professionals with easy access to applied behavior analytic procedures and an effective and efficient way to aggregate and understand student performance data. Every lesson plan within the ACE can be customized to the learning profile of the individual student being taught. Thus, this web-based curriculum fills an enormous need for an easy-to-access, comprehensive, and rigorously tested resource allowing teachers and schools to provide effective and individualized services to their students.

(AI)2, Inc. offers cutting-edge educational and training software for college courses, laboratory simulations, and behavioral-services staff training. Products include 1) MediaMatrix - artificially intelligent online delivery engine for textbook content, adaptive tutoring, and mastery certification testing; 2) CyberRat - digital-video virtual reality simulations for operant response shaping, schedule effects and stimulus discrimination; and 3) Train-To-Code - adaptive expert system for training observation coding and behavior intervention skills.

DataFinch is the proud creator of Catalyst. The ABA data collection platform for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. By far the most comprehensive system available. Users can enter data on the device, and that data is transmitted in real-time to our web-based portal for automatic, graphing, analysis and reporting.

Skills® is an online toolkit that provides: comprehensive assessment, curriculum, and IEP goals for early childhood to adolescence, positive behavior support planning for challenging behavior, and progress tracking. Our unique set of curricula includes 4,000 activities across eight areas: social, motor, language, adaptive, play, executive function (planning, problem solving, attention, remembering, inhibition, flexibility, and self-management), cognition (inferring private events/perspective taking), and academic skills.

Cloud-based Learner Folder: An ABA Performance Support System - "Performance Tools" are essential to the implementation of ABA Programming in any setting. Tucci Learning Solutions has developed the "tools" required for ABA Practioners to formulate, deliver, and monitor ABA Programming. Each Team member assigned to a case can access their learners’ programming via their computers or other devices.

Behavioral intervention (BI) is an evidence-based approach for teaching critical developmental skills and preventing/treating challenging behaviors in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Parents of children with ASD are often unprepared to communicate knowledgably with professionals as BI services are arranged. Online courses may help parents understand the fundamentals of BI such that they may better participate in treatment decisions, evaluate outcomes, and conduct interventions. Such courses are apt to be most effective if they are developed and delivered in concert with parents, based on good behavioral instructional technology, and made clear and engaging with interactive media, and made available "any time, anywhere." The course has a unique feature of "parent guides" who offer honest advice and share experiences with ABA and their child/family. These personal connections are valuable for connection to content and learning. This poster will describe the development and evaluation of the 10-module course, Discovering Behavioral Intervention: A Parent's Interactive Guide to ABA, designed to provide an effective online education in BI for parents of children with ASD.

Given the empirically validated success of behavioral interventions based on applied behavior analysis (ABA) for individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities, the demand for knowledgeable and skilled paraprofessional teaching staff is at an all-time high. Unfortunately, there currently exists a widely recognized shortage of such practitioners. What is needed is an efficient training curriculum that is specifically geared toward those at the paraprofessional level, one that does not require university enrollment. Such a training program must be easy to access, presented at a level that reaches anyone who may have little or no prior experience with ABA and be available anytime one chooses to access it. This presentation will describe an innovative program of research and development aimed at training paraprofessionals through the use of online distance training. The focus of the program has been on teaching fundamental knowledge and skills in behavioral intervention methods by simulating typical live mentor/mentee training. To help build skills, the program makes use of unique simulation exercises, in which the user directly interacts with an onscreen child from a first-person perspective. Program evaluation data from multiple studies will be summarized that demonstrate both knowledge acquisition and transfer of computer-based skills to live performances.