NAVIGATION

May Institute Clinicians to Present at the 2024 BABAT Conference

09/25/24

A number of May Institute clinicians are slated to present at the 45th Annual Conference of BABAT. The Massachusetts Professionals in Behavior Analysis conference will take place at the DCU Center in Worcester, Mass., from October 16-18, 2024. 

Presenters include:

Jenna Gilder, Ph.D., BCBA, LABA, May Institute
Session Title: Making it Meaningful: Empowering Autistic Children and Adolescents and Those with Other Developmental Disabilities Through Teaching Critical Life Skills
Title of (each) presentation: 
  • Teaching Delay Tolerance to a Child with Smith-Magenis Syndrome in a Classroom Using a Simplified Approach
  • PEERS for Adolescents with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in a Non-Public, Residential School: A Feasibility Study
  • Utilizing Skills-Based Treatment to Decrease Dangerous Behavior in a Young Adult with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Empowering Autistic Adolescents: Co-Designing and Participating in Personalized Healthy Eating and Exercise
Presenters: Additional Authors:
Allie Rader, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA, May Institute
Session Title: Behavioral Data Collection and Research Productivity: Applying Behavioral Science to Address Organizational Challenges
Title of (each) presentation:
  • Training Teachers to be Performance Managers of Behavioral Data Collection Practices in their Classrooms
  • Identifying Barriers to Research Engagement by Behavior Analysts in an Applied Setting: A Replication of Valentino and Juanico (2020)
Presenters: Additional Authors:
Chelsea Salvatore, Ph.D., BCBA, May Institute
Session Title: Improving Meaningful School and District Level Outcomes with PBIS
Title of (each) presentation:
  • Impact of Equity-Focused PBIS on Groups Overrepresented in School Discipline
  • Moving the Needle on Family-School Partnerships within the PBIS Framework
  • Student and Family Support Through PBIS Can Save Billions of LEA Dollars in Massachusetts
Presenters:
Alexandra Demeo, M.A., BCBA, LABA, May Institute
Session Title: Fruitful collaborations between BCBAs and Occupational Therapists
Title of (each) presentation: 
  • Stimulus Fading and Transfer in the Treatment of Self-Injurious Behavior: A Decision-Making Matrix
  • The Single-Case Experimental Design as Opportunity for Interprofessional Collaboration: Concept and Case Exemplar
Presenters:
Paper presentation(s):
  • Hozella, W. (2024, October 16-18) A Tutorial on Applications of Lowenkron’s Joint Control to Language Acquisition Programs In S. Brinkerhoff (chair), Examples of Teaching Verbal Behavior to Mediate Responding [Symposium]. Annual Conference of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Worcester, MA, United States.

Poster presentation(s):
  • Bright, C., Rader, A., Hozella, W., & Ricciardi, J. (2024, October 16-18). Identifying form and intensity features of head-directed SIB: Toward the development of an objective measure of risk factors for head injury [Poster presentation]. Annual Conference of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy, Worcester, MA, United States.
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