For Behavioural Interventionists
Behavioural Interventionist Online Course and Competency-based Training Protocol
All Behavioural Interventionists working with Family Centred Practices Group must successfully complete our comprehensive online training course. Students must demonstrate proficiency with the course content by achieving a grade of 80% or higher on tests related to each of the 22 modules. Training modules include the following:
Topic 1: An Introduction to Family Centred Practices Group and Best Practices
Topic 2: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Topic 3: An Introduction to Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)
Topic 4: Ethics and Your Role as a BI
Topic 5: Structuring the Environment
Topic 6: Establishing Instructional Control
Topic 7: The ABC Model of Learning and Behaviour
Topic 8: Motivating Operations
Topic 9: Skill Acquisition, Discrimination Training and Discrete Trial Training
Topic 10: Teaching in the Natural Environment
Topic 11: Mixed and Varied Tasks, Task Interspersal, and Behaviour Momentum
Topic 12: Activities of Daily Living, Shaping, Chaining and Task Analysis
Topic 13: Prompting and Error Correction
Topic 14: Acquisition, Generalization and Maintenance
Topic 15: Assessment, Behavioural Objectives, Progress Reports and Team Meeting Minutes
Topic 16: Introduction to Unitus
Topic 17: Measurement and Unitus
Topic 18: Graphing and Unitus
Topic 19: Decision Protocol and Unitus
Topic 20: Managing Challenging Behaviour
Topic 21: Crisis Management
Topic 22: Additional Communication Strategies
The content provides students with a firm foundation in understanding the principles of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) and the application of these principles to involvement in behavioural intervention programs. The information is presented in a variety of modalities to increase understanding. There is written information, visuals, examples related to the specific concept, and videos.
In addition to the online training, Behavioural Interventionists are consistently involved in our competency-based training protocol. The protocol is designed to teach and test each component covered in the on-line training in-vivo with children in our program. General concepts are individualized to train BIs on the skills in specific relation to each child’s unique behavioural plan of intervention.
Ongoing Professional Development Workshops for Behavioural Interventionists
One of the benefits of working as a BI for FCPG is your access to free professional development workshops. FCPG’s Behavioural Interventionist Workshop Series provides valuable information related to supporting children with autism as a BI, with a focus on practical application of the skills taught. These two hour workshops are held every two months and have covered a vast array of topics. Past workshop topics included:
- Establishing Rapport and Instructional Control
- Motivation and Reinforcement
- Functions of Behaviour
- Managing Problem Behaviour
- Teaching Communication Skills
- Structuring the Environment and Promoting Engagement
- A Hands on Approach to Structured Teaching
- Communicating via Visual Supports
- Teaching Self-Help Skills
- Data and Measurement
- Working in Families Homes
- Working in Daycares and Preschools
- Facilitating Play-dates