KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Doug Johnson, BCBA-D
Learning Leader
Eastman Chemical Company

Leadership to Build a Training System

Presentation topic: Although instruction, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback comprise the core of many approaches to training, many important details beyond these components remain omitted for employee training. Those details include learning factors and nuances in the interactions between trainers and trainees, as well as building a coherent system of reinforcement so the training approach survives and thrives within the organizational context as a whole. This talk will focus on creating a more holistic and sustainable approach to support performance-based instruction.

Anita Li, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA
Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts Lowell

Assessing and Pinpointing Burnout and Considerations for Organizations

Presentation topic: Burnout, organizations, assessments.

Dr. Marlesha Bell (she/her/hers), PhD, BCBA
Assistant Professor
California State University, Northridge

Leadership to Build a Training System

Presentation topic: The presentation will review 2 surveys. One survey will discuss the current training and putative barriers experienced related to culturally responsive mentorship. The other survey will discuss the student perspective of students from the global majority in their mentorship experiences in ABA. I would provide some discussion points and recommendations for culturally responsive mentorship practices given the perspectives from the surveys. ​

Amanda "Mandy" Ralston, BCBA, LBA, IBA
Founder & CEO
NonBinary Solutions

Clinical Decision Support Systems: Technology as a Solution to the Crisis of Mentorship, Balanced Caseloads, and Outcomes

​Presentation topic: Clinical decision support systems are quickly becoming essential tools for healthcare providers as the volume of available data increases alongside their responsibility to deliver value-based care. They have long been established parts of care in the medical community, as well as Physical and Occupational therapies. Reducing clinical variation and duplicative treatment, ensuring client and staff safety, and avoiding complications that may result in expensive clawbacks are top priorities for providers in the modern regulatory and reimbursement environment – and harnessing the hidden insights of big data is essential for achieving these goals. The amount of information BCBAs need to understand is getting so untenable that it’s unreasonable to expect the average clinician to integrate all of it into their decision-making effectively and reliably. Best practices are ever-evolving to keep-pace with rapidly developing understanding of autism and neurodiversity. Clinical decision support (CDS) tools are designed to help sift through enormous amounts of data to suggest next steps for treatments, alert providers to available information they may not have seen, or catch potential problems, such as behaviors or co-existing conditions that clinicians have no experience with.

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