Applied Behavior Analysis Technician (ABAT)

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About Applied Behavior Analysis Technician (ABAT®) Certification

The ABAT implements daily instruction and behavior intervention plans as designed by a master’s level or above professional who is licensed or certified within the scope of applied behavior analysis (ABA) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

The ABAT credential holder must complete approved coursework and meet the required hours of supervised fieldwork. ABATs have a foundational knowledge of ABA and ASD to protect their safety and welfare.

Target Audience:

Individuals who are high school graduates, have completed 40 hours of training, and 15 hours of fieldwork. ABATs are individuals who are interested in working with children special educational needs.

Eligibility Requirements:

Possessing a high school degree and/or higher.
Completing 40 hours of approved ABA, ethics, autism coursework.
Conducting 15 hours of supervised fieldwork.
Passing the board exam proctored by Examity platform.
Renewing required every two years including verification of the completion of 12 continuing education units, criminal background check, and agreement to the code of ethics.

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Course Content

Unit One: Autism Core Knowledge

1. ASD, common characteristics and deficits
2. Autism as a spectrum disorder and its core deficits as outlined in the DSM-V
3. ‘Red flags’ used in early diagnosis
4. Risk factors to autism spectrum disorders
5. Terminology associated with diagnosis, such as pragmatic language, receptive and expressive language, sensory-motor, social skills, joint attention, stereotypy
6. How and when disorders are commonly associated in differential diagnosis, such as learning disabilities, processing disorders, etc.
7. Identify co-morbid disorders associated with ASD

Unit Two: Legal, Ethical, and Professional Considerations

Unit Three: Core Principles of ABA

1. Behaviorism and behavior modification
2. Classical and operant conditioning, conditioned and unconditioned reinforcement and punishment
3. Three-part contingency; antecedents, behaviors, consequences (ABC data)
4. Foundational behavioral terminology including, extinction, extinction burst, spontaneous recovery, deprivation, satiation, stimulus, discriminative stimulus, stimulus control, responses, motivation operations, establishing operations, setting events
5. Principles and types of schedules of reinforcement and punishment
6. Contingent and non-contingent; primary and secondary reinforcement and punishment
7. Terms and definitions of Applied Verbal Behavior (AVB)

Unit Four: Antecedent Interventions

Unit Five: Skill Acquisition Programming

1. Elements of effective goals and objectives
2. Implementation of task analysis
3. Types of prompts- Identify least to most
4. Prompt dependence and fading
5. Demands and demand fading
6. Identify and define pairing
7. Modeling
8. Imitation
9. Identify the six verbal operants
10. Mimetic behavior
11. Motor behavior
12. Describe the implementation of Errorless learning and Error Correction procedures.
13. Define Stimulus control and transfer
14. The ABAT’s role in Transfer trials
15. Understand the phases of Discrete trial teaching (DTT)
16. Discrimination training
17. Define Shaping and understand its implementation
18. Describe the differences between backward and forward chaining
19. Natural environment teaching (NET) and implementation
20. Understand the purpose of generalization and maintenance
21. Define pivotal behavior
22. Pivotal response training (PRT)

Unit Six: Behavior Reduction Interventions

Unit Seven: Data Collection and Analysis

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