Dr. Kristin Myers-Kemp is the executive vice president of ABA Technologies, Inc. As an executive team member, Kristin helps to ensure ABA Tech stays on course toward its mission and oversees the efforts of the Curriculum and Instructional Teams. Kristin is the program director for the ABA Online Program, a collaboration of ABA Technologies, Inc. and Florida Institute of Technology.
Kristin received a Master of Science in applied behavior analysis from FIT in 2005. After several years of working in child welfare for the University of Florida Behavior Analysis Services Program, Kristin returned to FIT and completed a Ph.D. in behavior analysis under Dr. David Wilder in 2011.
Kristin has experience in child welfare, parent training, treatment of problem behavior, and has been a co-instructor for the ABA Online Program at FIT since 2007. Today, Kristin is most passionate about curriculum design and training students in the science of behavior analysis.
IntroductionThe Florida Tech ABA Online Program is preparing for its last offering of the 5th Edition BCBA and MA Programs in Fall 2024, followed by the first offering of the 2027 Edition programs in Spring 2025. Students will be faced with a choice. Begin or continue with a 5th edition standards program or switch to a program that…
The BACB® certification standards will change in 2027. Over the next two years, universities will revise their training programs to ensure students qualify under the new standards. This blog outlines what these changes mean for prospective and current behavior analysis students.
Once upon a time, there was a couple named by their shared editions. The BACB® Standards and the BACB® Task List were long-standing partners known for their synchronized updates. But in 2022, to reaffirm their separate and distinct purposes, the BACB® announced a split in the marriage of the Task List and the Standards. The split also comes with a name change. Starting in 2025 with the 6th…
Much like the bar exam covers the content a law student needs to know before entering the field of law, the BACB® Task List has long served as the guide to the knowledge and skills on which a student of behavior analysis will be tested before entering the field as a certified behavior analyst. The Task List — currently in its 5th edition — is revised periodically based on the needs and…
As behavior analysts, we constantly try to determine why people do what they do. Often this is in a clinical context. Why does Johnny tantrum? Why does Jane flop during transitions? Other times we try to analyze scenarios as a brain exercise, conceptual analysis for fun, or for those preparing for…
