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“The supervisor who focuses on teaching problem-solving skills is programming for the supervisee’s future independence and success by teaching them how to solve future problems, rather than simply providing a solution to the current problem.” 

“The supervisor plays a critical role in helping the supervisee overcome any avoidance contingencies that may be preventing them from noticing or reporting problems.”

Supervisors should expressly teach trainees how to engage in observational learning to facilitate growth and development well past the supervisory relationship.

This tree represents the influences on your learning journey to become the supervisor you are today. Continued reflection and purposeful self-evaluation can help you ensure that your tree continues to have healthy growth in the right direction.

How to Take Your Supervisory Skills to the Next LevelMany Board Certified Behavior Analysts® are familiar with supervisory responsibilities, but fewer become mentors or exhibit true leadership qualities.

We have to think in terms of accomplishments. What is the product? What is it that the student will actually do as a result of the instruction? Joe Layng, PhD 

This podcast episode describes the importance of actively evaluating the effects of our supervisory practices. We discuss several different sources of data and provide specific strategies for how to collect and analyze them. We also cover what to do once you have the data.

 The Podcast An ABA Technologies Academy Podcast Credit: 0.5 BACB, 0.5 Supervision Price: $10.00

This episode does not qualify for BACB CEs. -

The world is comprised of people of varied life experiences, values, and ways of acting in the world. The people we supervise and the people we serve will benefit from our responsiveness to variations and our tenderness in approaching relationships.

Your most important role as a supervisor is to get results for your clients, offering them optimal opportunities to improve their quality of life. As experts in the science of behavior analysis, you can get results by maximizing and supporting your most important asset—your people.

Ethics play a major role in the day to day of OMBers, and even impacts how they manage themselves. Read more about ethics in OBM here!

An Interview With Tom Freeman, Senior VP of ABA Technologies, Inc.

Listener skills are a primary focus of intervention for individuals with developmental disabilities. In this course, Dr. Laura Grow describes strategies for effectively teaching listener skills with a specific focus on conditional discrimination procedures. Dr. Grow begins this course by defining listener skills and then describes auditory-visual conditional discrimination contingencies as they appear in clinical settings.

Along with its identification as one of the core deficits in children diagnosed with autism, often described as lacking in symbolic qualities and flexibility, Nancy and Melissa developed PlayTubs™ to increase appropriate independent and sociodramatic play skills in children with autism and other developmental or language delays.