Autism training for your paraprofessionals

The Level 1 ABA Online Training Course for groups is basic training, not a credential. It is built for the people who work beside a student all day: paraprofessionals, aides, teachers and behavior technicians. Its nine online sessions include:

• what autism is, and an overview of ABA
• methods of teaching, and errorless teaching and prompting
• active student responding, to raise a learner's motivation
• two sessions on beginner classroom participation skills
• a first session on assessing problem behavior (functional behavior assessment)

A final exam follows the sessions.

Sessions run from about 45 minutes to just over 2 hours, and each person moves at their own pace. Every person gets their own access and has 10 weeks to finish from the day they activate it.

Completing this course earns a Special Learning certificate of completion. That certificate is not a continuing education (CE) certificate. It is not a professional credential, and it is not the 40-hour training required for the RBT credential.

This course does not meet any state's mandated training requirement. Whether it fits your own district's plan is your district's decision. For what your state requires of school staff, see each state's rule, quoted from the law.

1. Tell us how many people. Ask for a quote.
2. We send a numbered, written quote your office can approve, or raise a purchase order against.
3. Send us the purchase order number and we put it on the invoice. Pay by check, ACH or card. Access is activated once payment has cleared.
4. Each person gets their own access, and their 10 weeks start when they activate it.

Our signed W-9 is on the page for school districts; send us your vendor forms and we will complete and return them. A school paying by card for a group of 10 or more can also order online.

Does it count for our paraprofessionals' required hours?

We don't claim it does. It earns a certificate of completion, which is not a CE certificate, and whether it counts toward any requirement is your district's or your state's decision.

Does it cover restraint, crisis intervention or de-escalation?

No. It covers autism and behavior-support foundations only. Support for a particular student follows that student's plan and the clinician who wrote it.

Can a cooperative or interlocal buy for its member districts?

Tell us who is buying and for how many people, and we will write the quote to match.

Is it only for paraprofessionals?

No. Teachers, aides, behavior technicians and anyone on the team who works with a student every day can take it.