This certification training is designed for real-world application, engaging, structured, and built to help you actually retain what you learn.
Most behavior technician training is outdated, boring, and hard to sit through.
The Behavior Technician Mixtape is a 42.5-hour certification training built to meet the QABA Coursework Topic Guidelines and prepare you for the Applied Behavior Analysis Technician (ABAT) credential and the ABAT exam.
🎤 What You Will Learn (Guided to the QABA ABAT Content Areas):
- Autism Core Knowledge: defining autism spectrum disorder, the triad of impairments, red flags and risk factors, common deficits, co-morbid diagnoses, and diagnostic terminology
- Education, Training, and Self-Development: IDEA, Least Restrictive Environment, and how an Individual Education Plan is used
- Principles of Applied Behavior Analysis: the three-part contingency, Applied Verbal Behavior, pairing, motivating operations, reinforcement and punishment, schedules, extinction, and discriminative stimuli
- Instructional Interventions and Skill Acquisition: observable and measurable goals, task analysis, shaping, chaining, prompts and prompt fading, discrimination training, generalization, maintenance, and natural environment teaching
- Discrete Trial Teaching: components, benefits, errorless learning, priming, and correction procedures
- Pivotal Response Treatment: key components and when and how it is used
- Principles of Working with Autism Effectively: best practice, evidence-based treatment, validity and reliability, and team collaboration
- Reducing Problem Behavior and Functional Assessment: behavior intervention plans, functions of behavior, functional analysis and FBA types, differential reinforcement, token economies, and proactive versus reactive strategies
- Positive Behavior Supports: visual supports, visual schedules, social stories, video modeling, functional communication training, PECS, and TEACCH
- Data Collection and Evaluation: operational definitions, measurement procedures, continuous and discontinuous methods, graphing, baseline, visual analysis, and interobserver agreement
- Philosophy, Values, Advocacy, and Person Centered Planning: advocacy, self-determination, and the fundamentals of person-centered planning
- Legal and Ethical Considerations: ABAT scope of practice, the QABA Code of Ethics, HIPAA, confidentiality and its exceptions, and dual relationships
🔥 Built for the ABAT Exam
The ABAT exam covers basic behavior principles, measurement and data collection, assessment, intervention strategies, ethics, and professional conduct. Every track is mapped to the QABA Coursework Topic Guidelines, so you are studying exactly what you will be tested on.
This training keeps your attention and helps you retain the material, with a modern, culturally relevant approach that spans diverse settings including group homes, classrooms, adult day programs, residential care, and community-based services.
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