Build Your Own CE Plan: How Working Professionals Assemble ABA Training That Fits Their Goals

Most continuing-education products decide for you. They hand you a fixed bundle and assume everyone in your role needs the same hours, in the same order, on the same topics. But a school-based BCBA, an agency clinical director, and a technician moving toward certification are not doing the same job — and their training shouldn't pretend they are. All Access is built on the opposite premise: you assemble the library that fits the work in front of you.

What "build your own" actually means here

All Access gives you a single on-demand library of 158 courses across 11 topic areas — and you choose what to take, in what order, on your own schedule. The topic areas span the real range of applied practice:

• ABA foundations
• Behavior intervention
• Assessment
• Early intervention
• School-based ABA
• Supervision
• Ethics
• Collaboration
• Cultural competency
• Agency management
• Psychopharmacology

You're not locked into a track. A supervisor short on ethics hours can go straight to ethics content; an agency owner can pull supervision and agency-management courses; an early-intervention specialist can build a run of assessment and early-intervention material. The catalog is the menu — you build the plan.

If you're building your plan around a renewal cycle, see BCBA CE requirements 2026: ethics, supervision, and what the July 1 rule actually changes for what counts and in which categories.

What's ACE-credited, stated honestly

Here's the part most CE marketing blurs, and we won't: of the 158 courses, about 60 are ACE-credited — they carry continuing-education credit you can apply toward BACB requirements. The rest are non-credited educational webcasts: overviews, foundational explainers, and specialized content that builds knowledge without carrying formal CE credit.

That distinction matters when you're planning recertification. If you need a specific number of credited hours by your renewal date, you build your plan from the ~60 ACE-credited courses — and All Access makes which-is-which clear so you're never guessing whether an hour will count. Special Learning is a BACB ACE Provider (OP-14-2437), so the credited courses come from an authorized provider, which is the threshold for CE that counts toward your BACB cycle.

What you can actually download

Every course comes with its own downloadable PowerPoint and a set of action tools — checklists and worksheets built to turn the video content into something you use, not just watch. That's the practical layer: you finish a course on, say, function-based intervention, and you walk away with the slide deck and the worksheets to apply it the next day.

(To be precise about what this is and isn't: the downloadables are per-course materials tied to each video. They are not a separate library of standalone templates — those are individual products in their own right.)

All Access vs. the CE Library: a curation choice, not a coverage gap

Special Learning also offers a done-for-you recert bundle — the CE Library — which is a curated, pre-assembled set of webcasts that maps directly to the BCBA recertification path (including the BACB ethics and supervision CEUs a recert requires). All Access contains that same credited content and far more; the difference is who does the assembling.

• Choose the CE Library if you want the recert path handed to you, pre-curated, with nothing to plan.
• Choose All Access if you want the full library to self-assemble — recert credits plus the broader catalog to go deeper into your specialty, supervise more capably, or train across your whole agency.

It's a curation choice, not a coverage gap: All Access already reaches the credited content the recert bundle holds. You're deciding whether you want it pre-built or build-your-own.

Who builds their own, and why

The professionals who get the most from All Access tend to have one thing in common: a specific goal that a one-size bundle doesn't serve.

• The agency owner training a mixed team across roles and credentials.
• The supervisor who needs supervision and ethics credit and wants to stay current on assessment.
• The clinician changing focus — moving into early intervention, school-based work, or OBM — who needs a body of knowledge, not just a credit count.
• The professional who learns on the margins — a course between sessions, on a commute, late at night — and needs the whole library available the moment time opens up.

If that's how you work, a fixed bundle wastes half of what you're paying for. Building your own plan from the full library is the point.

Frequently asked questions about All Access

What is the All Access library?

All Access is Special Learning's on-demand CE library: 158 courses across 11 topic areas — ABA foundations, behavior intervention, ethics, supervision, assessment, early intervention, school-based ABA, collaboration, cultural competency, agency management, and psychopharmacology. Professionals choose what to take and when, rather than following a fixed bundle. Special Learning is a BACB ACE Provider (OP-14-2437).

How many All Access courses are ACE-credited?

Approximately 60 of the 158 courses carry ACE credit applicable to BACB recertification requirements. All Access labels credited vs. non-credited courses so you can plan your renewal cycle without guessing.

What's the difference between All Access and the CE Library?

Special Learning's CE Library is a pre-curated recertification bundle mapping to the BCBA renewal path. All Access contains all that credited content plus a broader catalog. The difference is curation: both reach the required credits; All Access gives you the full library to build around.

Who can access the All Access library?

BCBAs, BCaBAs, RBTs, SLPs, OTs, psychologists, social workers, teachers, special educators, and agency owners. Note: the library is not available for parent or student roles.

For school-based ABA professionals on your team, see Behavior Support That Holds Up in an IEP: ABA-Grounded Strategies for Special-Ed Teams.

Special Learning is an active BACB ACE Provider (OP-14-2437). Authorization as an ACE Provider does not imply endorsement or approval of the ACE event content by the BACB. Continuing-education credit applies to the ACE-credited courses in the library; not all courses carry CE credit. This article is for general educational purposes; confirm your specific recertification requirements against your current BACB cycle and the BACB Handbook.