On this episode we welcome Kathleen Oppenheimer to drop some truth bombs about what Gestalt Language Processors are and aren’t and what their proponents practice or claim to practice. Below are some resources we discussed during the episode.
Learning Objectives:
Be able to differentiate between the terms Gestalt Language Processing (GLP), Analytic Language Processing (ALP), and Natural Language Acquisition (NLA), as they are used by proponents of the GLP/NLA framework.
Understand the proposed therapeutic approach of proponents of NLA/GLP framework.
Be able to identify key limitations of the GLP/NLA framework
Website: https://gestaltlanguageprocessing.org (https://gestaltlanguageprocessing.org/)
Instagram: @language_processing (https://instagram.com/language_processing)
A handout Kathleen created about supporting children who use delayed echolalia, in hopes of promoting collaboration when there is disagreement about NLA/GLP: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Handout-Supporting-Communication-in-Children-who-use-Echolalia-13657733 (https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Handout-Supporting-Communication-in-Children-who-use-Echolalia-13657733)
Three articles providing thoughtful critiques of NLA/GLP:
https://asatonline.org/for-parents/learn-more-about-specific-treatments/natural-language-acquisition/ (https://asatonline.org/for-parents/learn-more-about-specific-treatments/natural-language-acquisition/)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613241287577 (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13623613241287577)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40474-024-00312-z (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40474-024-00312-z)
Link to pay for your CEU Certificate: https://buy.stripe.com/aFa9ATg925ec0Bfer3eZ20b (https://buy.stripe.com/aFa9ATg925ec0Bfer3eZ20b)
15 Aug 2025
11: It's Called an Assessment FFS (ETHICS)
This is a short episode worth .5 CEUs in Ethics. It's a little ranty but aren't all the pods...kinda? Adam solo podcasts about the RBT Competency Assessment and how to avoid possible ethical complications.
RBT Competency Assessment Packet (https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RBT_Competency_Assessment_Initial_2024-240612-a.pdf)RBT Ethics Code (2.0) (https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/RBT-Ethics-Code-240830-a.pdf)
Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts (https://www.bacb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ethics-Code-for-Behavior-Analysts-240830-a.pdf)
Follow this link if you want a CEU Certificate: https://buy.stripe.com/eVqdR90a4cGEcjX2IleZ20a
This episode is shorter, so the CEU fee is CHEAPER...only $2.00!!!
13 May 2025
10: RFK & ASD
Adam, Kait, and Kayla discuss RFK's press conference where he discussed the ASD "epidemic" and finding a "cure." We only get off track for a little bit...that's a win for the 3 of us!
Learning Objectives:
Differentiate between varying presentations of autism, including characteristics and support needs of individuals with Level 3 autism.
Review the current number of BCBAs and RBTs in comparison to the number of individuals diagnosed with autism, and how this may impact service delivery in the future given the increasing rise in diagnosis.
Develop communication strategies that promote client dignity, particularly in the context of emotionally charged or controversial topics.
Reflect on the balance between personal beliefs, professional responsibilities, and public advocacy as a BCBA.
Follow the link to pay for your CEU: https://buy.stripe.com/cN26qo14e1lP3i8eV3
18 Apr 2025
09: BCBA Test aka I'm Fine. It's Fine. Everything is Fine.
Adam sits down with his supervisee, Natasha, as she puts a cherry on top of her supervision hours and gets ready to sit for her BCBA exam. This episode is worth 1 SUPERVISION CEU.
Learning Objectives:
What makes ABA different from other helping fields?
What are some Non-Examples for how to conduct supervision and be a BCBA?
Why is it important to understand your personal biases?
Follow the link to pay for your CEU Certificate: https://buy.stripe.com/9AQaGE5ku2pT3i828g
If you need anything, please email us at CEUsThatDontSuck@gmail.com
31 Oct 2024
08: F U FC
Adam and Kait discuss, in a swear laden manner, the Facilitated Communication documentary “Tell Them You Love Me.” Follow along and try to stay a little less upset than Adam!
Learning Objectives:
What the difference is between Facilitated Communication and Functional Communication.
What the difference is between presumed competence and presumed potential.
How to use science to be skeptical of new interventions.
Follow the link to pay for your CEU Certificate: https://buy.stripe.com/4gwcOM4gq7Kd5qg28f
If you need anything, please email us at CEUsThatDontSuck@gmail.com
16 Sept 2024
07: The Right To Be Lazy AF
Adam and Kait dissect one of their favorite articles: Balancing the right to habilitation with the right to personal liberties: the rights of people with developmental disabilities to eat too many doughnuts and take a nap. They hit the following learning objectives and hopefully entertain you in the process!
Learning Objectives:
What does the “right to habilitation” mean for people with developmental disabilities?
What are personal liberties?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing citizens with developmental disabilities to exercise their personal liberties?
How might service providers better protect both the right to habilitation and the freedom to choose?
Link for the article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1286212/pdf/jaba00087-0081.pdf (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1286212/pdf/jaba00087-0081.pdf)
Follow the link to pay for your CEU Certificate: https://buy.stripe.com/00gbKI9AKggJ9Gw8wC
If you need anything, please email us at CEUsThatDontSuck@gmail.com
29 Apr 2024
06: When ABA has no IDEA how to 504
You can get 1 Supervision CEU for listening to this episode!!!
We invited Carly Mappa, BCBA to join us on this podcast. Carly has worked in schools as a supervisee and new practitioner followed by working in a school district as a new BCBA. Carly also, luckily or unluckily, was a supervisee of Adam’s. She sheds light on Adam’s supervision style AND what it is like to work in a school district from two different roles.
Learning Objectives:
What are 2 things you need to do as a supervisor working in a school setting, for your supervisees?
What are 2 methods for training staff while working in schools?
What interpersonal skills are needed when supervising individuals in the school setting?
Follow the link to pay for your CEU Certificate: https://buy.stripe.com/dR6bKI00a1lPcSIaEJ
If you need anything, please email us at CEUsThatDontSuck@gmail.com
15 Apr 2024
05: School Ethical Quagmires and Kerfuffles
In this episode we cover some ETHICS related to working in and with schools. We go over some of the relevant Ethical Codes and give personal case examples with suggestions on how to best tackle the gray areas of ethical practice you may encounter working with schools.
Learning Objectives:
Cite at least 3 ethical dilemmas that are often difficult to navigate as a school based BCBA.
Ways to collaborate with other providers without being a Richard but still remaining ethical.
How can BCBAs be more effective in schools?
Follow the link to pay for your CEU Certificate: https://buy.stripe.com/7sIbKIfZ8aWp9Gw28c
If you need anything, please email us at CEUsThatDontSuck@gmail.com
25 Mar 2024
04: School Sh*t You Need To Know
In this episode we cover some things you, as a Behavior Analyst, may or may not know about education in the United States.
This is the first installment of a multi-part series that delves into the role that BCBAs can, do, and should play in the educational system. Consider this episode a foundation that future parts will be built upon.
Here are links that expound on some of terms we talked about in this episode:
IDEA (https://sites.ed.gov/idea/)
FAPE (https://sites.ed.gov/idea/regs/b/b/300.101)
Case 1 regarding IEE Process (https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/SDE/SpEd-Hearing-Decisions/2019/19-0038-Fully-adjudicated.pdf)
Case 2 regarding IEE Process (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-2nd-circuit/2086789.html#:~:text=question%20is%20no.-,I.,an%20IEE%20at%20public%20expense.)
Manifestation and Determination (https://www.weareteachers.com/manifestation-determination-meeting/)
Learning Objectives:
Listeners will gain a basic understanding of and be able to describe the evaluation and eligibility process for clients to receive special education and ABA support in the public school setting.
Listeners will be able to describe terms related to special education including least restrictive environment, FAPE and manifestation determination.
Listeners will understand the role of an outside BCBA in the IEP process as it pertains to parent training and caregiver education.
Follow the link to pay for your CEU Certificate: https://buy.stripe.com/28og0Y7sCc0tcSIcMP (https://buy.stripe.com/28og0Y7sCc0tcSIcMP)
If you need anything, please email us at CEUsThatDontSuck@gmail.com
18 Mar 2024
03: Parent-Led Exposure Therapy
Third episode and our FIRST with a guest. We welcome Kayla Perry (Honestly Unorthodox) with an article she picked to review.
In this episode we, three, cover the article: Parent-Led Exposure Therapy: A Pilot Study of a Brief Behavioral Treatment for Anxiety in Young Children
The article can be found at the following address: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0772-y (https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1007/s10826-017-0772-y)
Learning Objectives:
1: Define anxiety and discuss if treating anxiety is within the scope of Behavior Analysis.
2: Identify barriers to parent led interventions.
Follow the link to pay and access your CEU Certificate:
https://buy.stripe.com/9AQ0205kuggJ7yo7su
11 Dec 2023
02: The Shame of American Education REDUX
We review the 2007 article: "The Shame of American Education" Redux
Article available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.5210/bsi.v16i1.399 (https://link.springer.com/article/10.5210/bsi.v16i1.399)
Is Everyday Math the Worst Math Program Ever: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/12/10/is-everyday-math-the-worst-math-program-ever/?sh=771d01884dbc (https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/12/10/is-everyday-math-the-worst-math-program-ever/?sh=771d01884dbc)
What Works Clearinghouse: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/ (https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/)
For CEU's follow this link: https://buy.stripe.com/6oE2a8cMWc0t6ukdQR (https://buy.stripe.com/6oE2a8cMWc0t6ukdQR)
1 Dec 2023
01: The Shame of American Education
We review Skinner's 1984 article "The Shame of American Education." Follow the link for the article: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=2c5fb64f91ee1900639e01218e43224ce1438d97
Learning Objectives:
1. Review the article as it pertains to ABA.
2. Contrast the time the article was written as compared to today (2023).
3. Give suggestions for those in the education field about what they can do to help combat the problem.
Follow the link below to pay and get your CEUs:
https://buy.stripe.com/dR60207sC3tXf0Q6oo
28 Nov 2023
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