Hi I’m doing an assignment for my Collaboration and Consulting class that requires me to ask people some questions on how they effectively collaborate and consulted with co-workers, clients, etc. This is mostly for people who work with children who have special needs. So teachers, Speech and language Therapist, OTs, RBTs, PTs, BCBAs, even program directors! It’s only about 10 questions that I would like to ask on how you effectively collaborate and consult when working with co-workers and new people for a kid or individual!! Thank you

I work with children age 3-10 with level 1 autism, ADHD, ODD, anxiety disorders and adjustment disorders. I would like to stay in this area. And I need places where I don’t need to learn the language. Any tips?

Given the results of the recent election, any suggestions on a good country to relocate to?

I’ve heard Finland and New Zealand so far. Any others?

Sorry if this is not the right place to ask this sort of thing, I was doing "online research" (Googling) and ended up here.

So, I have this classmate, a very social guy, who, once upon a time, used to glance my way every single class since day 1. We ended up becoming "class acquaintances," largely because, despite all the glances, he could never keep a conversation going and would almost never look me in the eye while I was talking to him. So, a few months later I got tired of this and asked him (on social media) if he wanted me to keep my distance, if that would make him feel more comfortable. He took the "I don't know what you mean" road until I mentioned the glances, after which he got mad, blocked me everywhere, and stopped talking to me.

I let him be. The glances continued, though, less often than before, but still there. About one year later, I tried to make amends, since I realized we'd be in the same class for a long time. Found a way to text him, being as friendly as possible, got no reply and when I approached him to ask if he had received my text, he snapped at me in front of other people, saying (among other niceties), "I don't speak to you." I let him be again, despite my wounded dignity. This was about 8 months ago.

Last Friday - surprise! - we were put in the same discussion group of a language class. I was the group's moderator, which, understandably, meant that I received most of the attention of whoever was speaking at any given time. When I arrived at my group and saw that classmate there, I said out loud and in a sarcastical tone, "O-ho, awesome." But that was it from my part. The classmate didn't look at me at first but every time he spoke during the discussion, he would look at me and only me. No hardened expression, no apparent anger or hatred, no eye movements, and - which I found weirdest of all - no blinking. I treated everybody equally, giving turn to each of the group's members, and ALL others would look mostly at me, but also to the other members every now and then, or down to a paper or their laptops, or around, whatever. The classmate would look at them while they were speaking, but then he was blinking at a normal rate, he looked at papers, screen, etc, just like everyone else. When he had the word again, though, there were his unblinking eyes on me again, and the stiff "frozen" body, as if someone were pointing a gun at him.

I've always read that when people are angry they don't usually blink, especially while they're talking. However, you can usually notice the anger in other ways: tone of their voice, a shift in the colour of their facial skin, hardened expression, etc. I had never seen anyone behave in the way this guy did and I wonder if it's common and what it could mean, apart from the obvious discomfort of having to be in the same group as me.

Any ideas?

Is this a normal thing? From what I’ve seen online, I only see BCBAs implementing it.

I'm in the process of deciding to create an ABA-based application that essentially allows users to run DTT on it. This would mostly consist of DTT that consists of arrays. I'd Iike to include features like multi-client target/program folders, audio feedback, shareability, analysis, etc..

I haven't dug much deeper than that until I have some input. I'm curious to know how in demand that would be, pros, cons, etc..

Poll: would this be a widely useful application for DTT?

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Hi everyone!

I’m interested in becoming certified through the International Behavior Analysis Organization (IBAO) and am looking for recommendations on the most affordable, quickest, and self-paced certification programs available.

Does anyone know of a program that checks all these boxes? I’d love to know about the approximate total cost for completing the entire certification too. Any insights or personal experiences would be really appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

This thing sucks and is WILDLY inaccurate.

Anyone have successes yet? What are your thoughts?

Will delete this later.

When a toilet got clogged in my house, I was able to shove my entire arm in there to unclog it cause plunger was broken. Only TP was there but still pretty gross if you think about it.

As a kid, I was on garbage duty where you would help filter out garbage between compost/recycling/landfill. I saw a half eaten cheeseburger and thought it looked good, so I took some swift and stealthy bites. Didn’t touch the eaten part but you get how gross that is.

Why do I act like a bum sometimes without realizing it? I only realize how gross it is later but I’m don’t particularly gag at these. Btw, I was not starved, I was raised as a middle class, family had no money issues, I ate everyday.

When I do these gross things, I still have a conscious, like when I ate around the bitten places of the cheeseburgers. But there’s something else, idk how to describe it.

My friend (31) does this every time we talk, regarding the usual things - her day, her husband, what she is about to do. She just starts talking like a baby, and I get very uncomfortable. She does this in front of 10s of people, at the party, etc. I just get a cringe feeling, and can try to talk about something serious so she gets normal. I think also she noticed I am not so warm with her, and we don't hang out as earlier. Why do adults talk like babies? It's so weird, I can not stand it, I don't even know why does it bother me so much.

Edit : she also does this when we are hanging with my boyfriend, or her boyfriend. She does not make the difference when to do her baby voice.

Edit : I am a woman

Hi I am accruing supervision hours and still working on my graduate coursework. I plan on finishing hours and coursework December 2025. I get married next week and am not sure the process to work on. My BCBA told me not to change my name because then I cannot used the hours I have already gotten with my maiden name.
Is this true? Has anyone else dealt with this?

I was wondering if someone could explain the RBT training to me. I understand about the 40 hour training and the exam, but I’m confused about finding a BCBA and how I get hands on training, since I plan to do everything on line. I keep reading that I should find a BCBA that I work with to supervise, but , supervise what? Do they give me the exam? And moreover, I don’t work for a company in this industry. Thanks!

Rbt here! If you had the option to work for, treetop ABA in center, life skills autism in center (Centria), red house behavioral research at home based, or golden steps ABA at home based, which would you choose and why? If none, which is the lesser of the evils? 😅 I am Arizona based Phoenix/Peoria area

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Hello all,

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Does anyone know what happens when you don't pass a class at Florida tech aba online? I saw in a syllabus that it's saying I might not be able to move on to the next course in the sequence without passing first? I was on track to graduate next spring and wnated to jsut retake the class next sesmeter along with the classess in the sequence. I dont know, someone help!

Hello! I am a BCBA in Michigan who is currently working for an organization that has several adult foster care (AFC) homes. I enjoy my work, but I’m struggling to find CEUs that relate to adults and ABA. While I understand that the majority of BCBA’s work in outpatient ABA and kiddos with Autism, I wish that there was more variety in CEUs that are accredited for BCBA CEU requirements for recertification. Does anyone have any recommendations?

I have an employee who constantly yawns when they are talking to me. I've asked other staff and they tell me the employee does not exhibit this behavior around them. The employee in question is marginal in job performance. I am puzzled as to why the constant yawning happens around only me.

I saw someone ask this about RBTs but I am curious, if i were to make becoming a BCBA a career path for myself it would be good to know: where in the country might it be best for me to live? I would be happy to relocate!

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It happens to me always, I can never be serious or tense in some serious situations ( not saying that I laugh or something but the thing is I couldn't make myself tense or can't feel like the way that an actual human should behave in that matter)

I just distract myself in my head by observing things around, looking at faces, thinking about what to eat next

I just look the things from 3rd person perspective idk if it is right to say or not, I myself can't understand this or don't know how to jot it down.

So it is, according to my company, most ideal for new hires to take the exam or at least be signed up for it by December 6th. My BCAT training (only training my company covers, it was free) took place in early October. I do have a client now. I am actually thinking i want to take the RBT instead now just bc if i decide i want to switch jobs in the future, having the RBT will be better for me. I’ve also honestly heard that the BCAT is harder and requires one to know more.

So I’m considering paying for the RBT exam. I got an 89% tonight on the comprehensive ABA rocks one without studying for it ahead of time. I’ve had a consistent client since maybe last week.

I’m sorry, it’s just that the videos are so long… how am I going to learn the material with ALL of these hour long, 30 min long, videos? I think I might just pay for a course… I mean, my company trained for the BCAT but if I decide I want to change jobs someday already having the RBT will really help me. I might just pay for a 40hr RBT training course, I’m still thinking about it.

The second video is longer than I expected. I’ve heard different, bad things about the free training courses.

So around 6weeks ago I (42yom) came home form work to discover my wife (33yof)had left and had taken our 2yo daughter with her, there was a note on the table "I found your OF account and saw the messages". That was it, she was done. I obviously could not function for the first week I tried calling her once, she picked up and all she said was "we are done, I'll call you if I'm ever ready to talk but we are over" that was it, reality came crashing in and my heart and soul was destroyed.

Some back ground about me/us.

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We'd been together 5 years, married just over 1, our daughter was the result of a very stressful and intense fertility journey.

A few months before she was born I was diagnosed with ADHD, My psychiatrist advised me to let my meds settle in then get therapy for the ADHD. I had mixed emotions about my diagnosis but mostly felt good that I had a reason as to why I was like I was. Things were looking up meds were helpful, new baby in the house and work was keeping me busy but I was able to continue to keep the house in order with my wife's assistance when she could.

After a year my wife returned to work, quickly have to go back to full time, she is amazing at what she does and every department wants her, she had no shortage of advancement opportunities.

I am a shift worker, paramedic specifically (it's relevant) and have joint custody of two teens from a previous marriage, I had them every other week. I am fortunate to live in a country where workplace flexibility is not only encouraged but legislated, in that if you apply the employer needs to have valid reasons to refuse. All my previous work arrangements had me spending less time with my teens as my shifts would never finish on time, best I could hope for was an hour late so I came up with a roster I hoped would work. It was a 6 week cycle, essentially I would work 6 12 hr shifts in one week and 1 12hr shift the week I had the teens, every 6th week I would not need to work a shift at all. It averaged out at FT hours and I was happy, at least I thought I was.

What I did know or see coming at the time, was that by doing this I spent less time with my wife, still saw my daughter a lot, as I had her on my days off, and that I was getting burned out doing 72hrs and 6 plus hrs OT in one week.

What happened was I got stressed, work, life, relationship was all fucked up, I felt no emotion at all, no motivation, withdrew socially, started smoking again neglected my relationship and even spent less quality time with the kids.

As has been an issue throughout my life, when I get stressed I withdraw and become addicted to something. Sometimes it's gaming, other times social media, doom scrolling reddit, junk food, alcohol, smoking or in this latest instance porn and sexting (actually the sexting was much later and was the first time I've done anything like that)

At first it wasn't that bad then over time it became problematic, caused its own set of stressors and feeling for me and I spiraled deeper, seeking out more. I joined OF and only ever subbed to the free trial accounts, it consumed me.

By the time I realised I had a problem, 2 months ago, it was too late, like the Titanic I knew I needed to do something but could not avert the disaster ahead.

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After that initial week I had to drag myself back to some normalcy, I'd managed to avoid alcohol but was smoking harder than the Marlboro man.

My wife had been all but begging me to help more around the house, asking why I could be happy with mess (it was never filthy) why I didn't feel a sense of accomplishment after cleaning, mopping washing etc, why I just did the basics while she was left to do the big jobs.

Suddenly, well slowly at first but still suddenly, I found my self doing all the things she had been asking me to do, all the projects I had forgotten she wanted done all the cleaning (big stuff, windows, showers etc) everything, it was like suddenly I was what she needed. I was also feeling joy, happiness and laughing again something I can't remember happening all year, I found myself engaging with strangers in casual conversations and not feeling like I was forced or fake, I was a new me .

At first I thought it was a knee jerk reaction, like if I do it she'll come back, it will all be ok. She called toward the end of the second week, I spoke more honestly to her than I had in a long time brutally, bluntly and honestly admitted to all my faults, all my dishonesty, deception and gaslighting, I apologized for so much. Over the course of that next week we had better open honest conversation that we had had in years, I told her about the new me, she took thought it wouldn't be sustainable. At the 3 week mark I saw my daughter again.

So now here I am, 6ish weeks later, I'm still not over her, I've accepted we are over and there is less likelyhood of reconciliation than interglatic travel occuring in my life time.

I am however still being more productive than ever, the house has remained clean and tidy, I have a schedule for the bigger tasks, the pool is the best it has ever looked, I've patched and painted the walls (where needed) restored the furniture that was planned for the last year, cleaned the garage, cleared the rubbish. You get it. It's still happening, I haven't spiraled.

I've lost 9kg, which I really needed to do, I'm walking daily and when I figure out a budget I'll join a gym, eating healthier, spending my time in a more productive way. It all feels like I can sustain this now but I don't understand how it's happened seemingly overnight.

I have no desire to game, binge eat, watch porn (I have when appropriate, if that makes sense, but way less often than before). Even when I say to myself ok lets play some Xbox, you've had a good day I just don't want to, I'd rather fold towels. Having a non productive day makes me feel depressed and anxious so I'm actively seeking out more things to do.

If I'd met myself six months ago and told myself this, I would have laughed myself out of existence, I never thought I was capable of being this person. I am even starting to believe I can sustain this change.

TL;DR

I was a stressed out, inattentive couch potato doing shit I shouldn't have been. Wife left me, brain rebooted with updated software and drivers and now I'm me 2.0

WTF happened........

I have a former friend who I once said to her that she wasn't taking my needs into consideration in deciding on a place to meet, and she got so offended that she hounded me for five days straight texting me several times every day, how could I say that to her, I hurt her feelings, she deserved and wanted an apology and wouldn't see me again until I apologized, when am I going to apologize, and then started talking about the same thing weeks later even after I said I wouldn't apologize because I didn't think I said anything wrong. Then she did this a second time when I made a fairly innocuous statement about something she did. Going on and on about how she goes out of her way for me, and I don't appreciate it and I'm thoughtless. Needless to say, we aren't friends anymore, but what do you call the type of behavior she was exhibiting?

YOU ARE NOT OCCUPATIONAL, PHYSICAL, OR SPEECH THERAPISTS!!!

Plus your careers continue to cause negative impact on children’s lives and many have PTSD because of this field.