BACB
***The BACB stands for
What is... Behavior Analytic Certification Board
***The estimated percent of people with autism who are nonverbal or minimal verbal
What is 25-30%
****The year Heartspring was founded as the Institute of Logopedics
What is 1934?
***This involves recording the length of time a behavior occurs
What is duration?
***The 4 things required to become an RBT
What are 40 hour training, supervision of a BCBA, competency assessment, and BACB RBT exam?
***This is when ABA became recognized as a treatment method for Autism Spectrum Disorders and other pervasive developmental disorders
What is the early 2000s?
***The age that Autism can reliably be diagnosed by
What is as early as 2 years old?
(The majority of kids are diagnosed after age 4)
***Our Vision: ________ _________ and ________ that changes the lives of children with special needs and their families
Creating hope and opportunity that changes the lives of children with special needs and their families.
****To target a behavior in ABA, the behavior must be both ___________ and ___________.
What is observable and measurable?
These are 3 areas of skills we target in ABA
What are communication, social, and adaptive living skills?
***The city and state that the BACB is located in
What is Littleton, Colorado?
****Boys are this many times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls
What is 4 times more likely?
****The year that the Institute of Logopedics changed it's name to Heartspring
What is 1992?
***These are the 4 functions of behavior
What are attention, access, avoidance, and automatic?
***The year the BACB created the Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) certification
What is 2014?
***The year the BACB was formed.
What is 1998?
***The country that has the lowest diagnosed autism rate in the world, with about 1 in 144 children diagnosed with autism
What is France?
***This is the man who first developed ABA therapy in the 1960s and began using the principles of behaviorism to treat people with autism
Who is O. Ivar Lovaas?
***This is what the "A", "B", and "C" stand for when taking ABC data
What is Antecedent, Behavior, and Consequence?
***This is when Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) began
What is 1968?
The term “applied behavior analysis” first appeared when the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis was founded in 1968.
***The number of BCBAs in the US
What is 59,976?
***In 2023, the CDC reported that approximately this many children in the US is diagnosed with Autism (according to 2020 data)
What is 1 in 36?
***The number of RBTs at Heartspring (in outpatient only)
What is 19 RBTs?
***The type of reinforcement that reinforces a behavior after every occurrence
What is fixed ratio of 1 (FR1)?
***The number of RBTs currently Active in the US
What is over 32,609?