Certified Applied Behavior Analysis Technician (CABA-Tech) Program
This non-credit certificate program prepares classroom teacher assistants and/or paraprofessionals to use applied behavior analysis principles with autistic children. The CABA-Tech® training program is a skills-based curriculum of five units designed to ensure that each graduate has the skills necessary to successfully serve in the capacity as an ABA Training Teaching Assistant. The methods used to support children with autism include:
1) to increase behaviors
2) to teach new skills
3) to maintain behaviors
4) to generalize or to transfer behavior from one situation or response to another
5) to restrict or narrow conditions under which interfering behaviors occur
6) to reduce interfering behaviors.
The goal of this program is for graduates to possess all the skills necessary to implement
evidence-based ABA teaching skills, both in the classroom and in home-based applications, and to allow these staff to meet the standards established in the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. The CABA-Tech® training program is based on The Personalized System of Instruction (PSI ) model. The CABA-Tech® program takes PSI Instruction to a new level by incorporating both verbal mastery of content and an objective measure of the student’s ability to demonstrate the skills contained within each teaching module, in an analogue environment as well as in-vivo. Thus, the student must demonstrate both verbal knowledge as well as application of the material before moving to the next unit of study.
The CABA-Tech® training program is based on the Core Skills Series by Quality Behavioral Solutions, which includes five skill series. Each Series ncludes five to eight learning modules.
Basic Core Skills Series
I. Basic Series
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II. Advanced Series I
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III. Advanced Series II |
1. Reinforcement
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1. Defining Behavior
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1. Delayed Reinforcement |
2. Reinforcement Delivery
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2. Writing Task Analysis |
2. Behavioral Contracting |
| 3. Reinforcement Preference Assessment |
3. Behavioral Chaining |
3. Incidental Teaching |
4. Conditioned Reinforcement
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4. Shaping
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4. Generalization Programming |
5. Differential Reinforcement
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5. Prompt Fading
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5. Discrete Trial Training |
| 6. Delivering Effective Instructions |
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| 7. Behavioral Momentum |
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| 8. Graduated Guidance |
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| IV. Advanced Reinforcement Series |
V.Technical Skills Series |
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1. Differential Reinforcement of
High or Low Rates of Behavior |
1. Functional Assessment (The A-B-C Method) |
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2. Non-Contingent Reinforcement
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2. Collecting Interval Data
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3. Interval Schedules of Reinforcement
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3. Collecting Latency &
Duration Data |
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4. Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement
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4. Graphing Data – Line Graphs
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| 5. Differential Reinforcement of Alternative & Incompatible Behavior |
5. Graphing Data – Other Graphs
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The certificate program must be completed in one calendar year. Courses are offered on an open enrollment basis at Endicott’s main campus in Beverly and at selected off-campus sites in the Greater Boston area. The certificate is valid for a period of three years from the date of completion. To maintain the status of the certificate, a total of 15 hours of additional training must be completed during each subsequent three-year period.
Dr. Malcolm Patterson
Associate Dean for Graduate Education
The Institute for Behavioral Studies
Endicott College
The Van Loan School of Graduate and Professional Studies
978-232-2935 • mpatters@endicott.edu