Lesson – 1. DSM-IV and DSM-V (or current DSM) related to autism spectrum disorders

Lesson – 2. CDC risk factors and comorbidities related to autism spectrum disorders

Lesson – 3. Developmental milestones (e.g., typical and atypical, age appropriate)

Lesson – 4. Autism diagnostic process

Lesson – 1. QABA Code of Ethics

Lesson – 2. HIPAA regulations (e.g., confidentiality including limitations, mandated reporting, reportable documents, duty to warn vs. duty to protect.

Lesson – 3. Educational laws (e.g., IDEA, LRE, IEP, ADA, Rehabilitation Act, 504 Plan)

Lesson – 4. Positive behavior supports

Lesson – 5. Person-centered planning

Lesson – 6. Methods of collaboration (e.g., treatment adherence, referral methods)

Lesson – 1. Four-term contingency

Lesson – 2. Respondent behavior vs. operant behavior

Lesson – 3. Stimulus (e.g., stimulus control, discriminative stimulus, stimulus delta, SD-p, generalization, discrimination, response)

Lesson – 4. Motivating operations including satiation and deprivation

Lesson – 5. Dead man’s test

Lesson – 6. Reinforcement and punishment (e.g., positive and negative)

Lesson – 7. Matching law (e.g., rate, magnitude)

Lesson – 8. Conditioned vs. unconditioned reinforcers/punishers

Lesson – 9. Basic schedules of reinforcement (e.g., fixed interval, fixed ratio, variable interval and variable ratio)

Lesson – 10. Risks to extinction procedures (e.g., extinction burst, spontaneous recovery and resurgence)

Lesson – 11. Basic verbal operants (e.g., mand, tact, echoic and intraverbal)

Lesson – 12. Scientific understanding: description, prediction, and control

Lesson – 13. Six attitudes of science

Lesson – 14. Seven dimensions of applied behavior analysis

Lesson – 1. Antecedent strategies (e.g., priming, choices, behavior momentum, visual supports, Premack Principle, environmental modifications)

Lesson – 2. Non-contingent reinforcement procedures

Lesson – 3. Functional communication training

Lesson – 4. Effects of setting events

Lesson – 1. Goal writing criteria (e.g., objective measurable mastery criteria, targets)

Lesson – 2. Social/cultural factors necessary for program success

Lesson – 3. Error correction methods

Lesson – 4. Prompts (e.g., hierarchy, procedures, fading, types, prompt dependency)

Lesson – 5. ABA instructional and educational methodologies

Lesson – 1. Components of behavior intervention plans

Lesson – 2. Components of token economies (e.g., backup reinforcers, generalized reinforcers, response-cost, ratio strain)

Lesson – 3. Time-out procedures

Lesson – 4. Differential reinforcement procedures

Lesson – 5. Behavior contrast

Lesson – 6. Functional assessments and functions of behaviors

Lesson – 7. Group contingencies

Lesson – 8. Components of contingency contracts

Lesson – 9. Ethical considerations related to behavior reduction interventions (e.g., extinction, time-out procedures, group contingencies, punishment procedures)

Lesson – 1. Types of preference and reinforcement assessments (i.e., limitations and benefits, implementation)

Lesson – 2. Components of functional behavior assessment (e.g., including direct (descriptive) and indirect assessments and their advantages and limitations, definition and components of a FBA)

Lesson – 3. Behavior assessment scales (interviews and scales)

Lesson – 4. Conditional probability components

Lesson – 5. Environmental analysis components

Lesson – 6. Criteria for operational definitions

Lesson – 1. Monitoring treatment and procedural integrity

Lesson – 2. Observer drift and reactivity

Lesson – 3. Inter-observer agreement validation methods

Lesson – 4. Training procedures and behavior skills training

Lesson – 5. Performance evaluation (e.g., feedback, documentation, continuous support)

Lesson – 6. Coordination of care (e.g., parent training, collaboration, liaison, communicate in laymen’s terms)

Lesson – 7. Socio-cultural values (considerations)