ABA people, doing amateur, advice about the next step?

[mariamagdalena]

Hiya. I have been winging a behaviouralist approach myself for so many years, and it has been helping (I do have some relevant training and experience so it's not completely made up). But it's clearly time to move beyond ABC charts 'in my head'. This is partly because what i need to teach now is becoming more complex, but also because I want to track progress in case of tribunals etc. I do a fair bit of simple operant conditioning with a bit of response prevention and a touch of shaping. It's mor necessary at home than school really becaus not only are ADLs harder than academics, but he holds it in at school.

I've learned loads from here, and moondog deserves a special thank you. Ideally I'd like to find a book that is an alevel version of the bangor MA curriculum (yes I know it probably doesn't exist). And maybe i should be looking for an ABA consultant / trainer / mentor to help with the switch to a more formal approach.

Do you have the ABLLS or any other 'curriculum' type of book? I can send you the templates for the data collection forms that I used with dd, if you'd like.
Has been a few years though, so someone else may have more up-to-date docs.

Sweetgapes, that sounds great. No, I don't have a curriculum as such, I've been choosing what area to teach by seeing where he's obviously behind his peers and / or the issue is causing a big problem. So, we are doing 'putting on shoes in the morning' now, but not long ago it was 'recognising fear'.

I mean sweetgrapes . If you could pm about the templates I'd be v. grateful.

You can get some VB Mapp Data sheets on this site www.avbpress.com/vb-mapp.html

great link willowthecat, please share more if you know :)

Yes it was a good little internet find prompted by me losing my copy of the VB Mapp (now found). I've found the VB Mapp to be very useful and quite easy to use - it can give you a real sense of where your dc is in terms of development.