SLPs who work with autistic clients work alongside behavior teams. That's the reality in most school districts, clinics, and early intervention programs today. When you understand how the behavior team thinks, the whole treatment plan works better. Special Learning has been building ABA training resources since 2010. We serve 32,000+ customers in 140+ countries.
What we offer is cross-disciplinary professional development: the ABA literacy that makes you a stronger partner on any team treating autistic clients.
Functional communication training is an ABA-based intervention. Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) implementation often sits inside a behavior support plan. Mand training, tact training, and echoic training are verbal behavior concepts that map directly to the SLP's communication goals. When you know these frameworks, you're not translating. You're speaking the same language as the rest of the team.
A few things SLPs tell us shift when they build ABA literacy:
Share a client with a behavior analyst? Build your collaboration plan with our free tool: roles, shared goals, data sharing, meetings and how you settle disagreements, ready to copy or print.
Working with a behavior analyst for the first time? Read how SLPs and behavior analysts work together on the same client: where the two fields overlap, scope of practice and scope of competence, and the eight things to agree on in writing.
Karen Chung founded Special Learning on May 15, 2010, because the training resources didn't exist. Today the platform serves practitioners across six continents. The mission is the same as it was in 2010: get evidence-based resources to every practitioner who needs them.
SLPs who co-treat autistic clients with behavior teams benefit from ABA literacy. Special Learning's library covers verbal behavior, functional communication training, reinforcement, and behavioral data collection, all relevant to SLP practice so communication goals integrate cleanly with the behavior plan.
SLPs target communication goals; behavior analysts address behavioral function and skill acquisition. Shared vocabulary around reinforcement, prompt hierarchies, and data collection reduces friction and speeds up treatment planning. ABA literacy makes that shared vocabulary possible.
The course offered here is Compassionate Mandated Reporting Across Disciplines. It is for professionals across disciplines, including SLPs, rather than an SLP-specific curriculum.
Compassionate Mandated Reporting Across Disciplines costs $39, paid once. It is a recorded 110-minute panel with a downloadable slide deck and a certificate of completion after you pass its quiz. It does not provide ASHA CEUs.
The ABA Glossary Complete, the AI Knowledge Interface, and a library of free clinical tools are all available at no cost.
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