Blogs
Funding for ABA Therapy
When searching for ABA providers, you will have many questions, thoughts, and concerns. Funding for ABA therapy shouldn’t be one of them.
Cultivate Bingo!
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Diversity Equity and Inclusion Initiative
At Cultivate, we value the importance of diversity, equity and inclusion, and what they offer to ensure that we provide quality services to our families/clients/patients.
Let’s Look at the Data!
Using an Evidence-Based Approach to Make…
Sensory Processing Crafts
What is Sensory Input? A sensory/automatically…
Virtual Santa Event!
It’s almost Christmas! Break out the stockings,…
Pivotal Behaviors
If you’re a practitioner, you should read (or reread) the post (Behavioral Cusps) on 4.1.16. It’ll help you understand the differences. If you’re a parent, you likely only have time to read one thing at the moment, so I’ll make this as clear and as entertaining as I can. To review very briefly the prior post, a behavioral cusp is essentially a behavior change that has consequences beyond the change itself (as defined by Rosales-Ruiz & Baer).
Behavioral Cusps
Rosales-Ruiz & Baer define behavioral cusps as a behavior change that has consequences beyond the change itself. Once a behavioral cusp is taught, the individual can now access new opportunities and new experiences that were not previously available. Clinicians typically want their learners to develop skills that will allow for new found access to meaningful opportunities (parents clearly want this as well).
3 Questions to ask yourself when evaluating social validity in treatment outcomes
Do you ever wonder if what you’re doing matters much? If you’re an RBT or a BCBA, you likely know how important it is to ensure that your programming is relevant and socially valid, especially when you’re serving kiddos with autism who really need strategic plans in place. According to Montrose Wolf (1978), social validity in behavior analysis can be evaluated in 3 ways.
Generalizations in ABA Therapy: Why is it so important?
Generalization is an area that quality practitioners need to emphasize. Like we’ve said since the beginning, this is particularly challenging when a behavior analyst is only providing services in the center. At Cultivate, we provide services where it matters most. We utilize a hybrid model, so we work at homes, schools, our centers, and anywhere else we can bring about meaningful behavior change. The subject in this blog post is generalization and we’ll explore what that means on a very practical level.