Bio: Karola Dillenburger is Professor of Behaviour Analysis and Education and Director of the Centre for Behaviour Analysis at the School of Social Science, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast. She is the Course Director of the MSc in Autism Spectrum Disorders (MScASD), has led the development of the MSc Applied Behaviour Analysis (MScABA). She teaches on these course and supervises Doctoral Research Students.
Her research focuses on evidence-based early intervention for vulnerable children and adults including those diagnosed with autism, behavioural parent training, and parenting children with disabilities across the lifespan, loss and trauma, and professional recognition of behaviour analysts worldwide.
Professor Dillenburger is a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst-Doctoral (BCBA-D) and clinical Psychologist (HCPC) and has worked extensively in child care, education, and therapeutic settings. She has published widely, including nine books, multimedia training resources and websites, and well over 100 academic peer-reviewed papers. She frequently delivers national and international keynote addresses in USA, India, Europe, and Australia.
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Being an RBT for me was extremely fun because where were you going to find a place where you can be completely silly without having to worry what people thought about you? This was the only job that made me feel like I could make a dramatic difference while being myself.
I also liked to be surrounded by people that had the same goals of wanting to help kids and the teamwork made the job much easier and more enjoyable.
Change and progress was the ultimate goal for our kiddos. The early intervention program was seriously only a miracle because I saw changes in the kiddos that from day one, you wouldn’t even recognize who they were.
Changes from being able to utter 3-4 words where they can only make a syllable from when they started, the behavior decreases in which kiddo that used to engage in 30-40 0 self-harm to only half, learning how to wait during games, table work where they use to swipe and drop to the floor if they had to.
My favorite was when the parents would tell us what amazing progress they were making at home. I used to tear up and felt for these parents so much because it was already difficult for them and now, they can trust and rely on ABA and the therapists knowing their goal was ours.
By Emma Rogers, BA, RBT
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