What We Do

Supervision

We are dedicated to the growth of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in the southwest Virginia area, offering supervision for those seeking to become certified as BCBA or BCaBA.

During the initial consultation we will discuss your individual supervision requirements and create a plan for a successful supervision experience.

See if this service is right for you! For more information please use the 'contact us' box below.

Interested in Supervision Services?

Let's talk! We are currently accepting new supervisees. Please complete the supervision interest form below and someone will reach out with you shortly. We'd love to see if our services could be a good fit for you!

Supervision Interest Form

Many times, Trainees struggle with getting started counting hours and often ask: "When can i start counting hours?" and "What hours count for what? The following is a summary from the BACB experience Standards guidelines.

What Does supervision look like?

Our Service

When to Get Supervision

Our job is to oversee individuals who are accruing experience hours to become certified (e.g., trainees) and/or individuals who are providing behavior-analytic services (e.g., RBTs and BCaBAs).

When to Get Supervision

Supervision is a time during an individual’s education where they get to apply their skills while working with a seasoned BCBA.

Why to Get Supervision

When to Get Supervision

Who Should Receive Supervision?

Supervisors get to mentor, model, and teach new clinicians how to become experts in their field. Supervision is an ongoing experience where each party works together to strengthen the trainee’s career.

Who Should Receive Supervision?

One of the primary eligibility requirements for certification as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) or Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA) is the completion of defined practical supervised fieldwork in applied behavior analysis. Anyone interested in pursuing either of these credentials must participate in supervised fieldwork prior to applying to take the board exam.

Where is Supervision Provided?

Who Should Receive Supervision?

How Much Supervision is Needed?

Supervision services can be held either

directly (in-person) or

remotely (via video conferencing), depending on personal needs and preferences.

How Much Supervision is Needed?

Who Should Receive Supervision?

How Much Supervision is Needed?

Supervisees are elidgible to receive up to the maximum allowed hours per month according to the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) standards, as found on the BACB Supervision Guidance page.

Starting supervision

STEP 1: Let's Get Scheduled!

Once you've determined you're ready to start supervision you'll need to contact us to schedule an initial consultation. You'll be provided with our Interest Form to fill out on your supervision needs and relevant circumstances.

STEP 2: First Meeting

At the initial consultation we'll talk about your supervision needs and make sure that we're a good fit to support your goals. Payment and terms will be reviewed, and you'll be provided with a supervision contract to sign. At that time an ongoing schedule can be developed with your specific supervision needs in mind.

STEP 3: Make it Official

If you haven't yet, you'll need to register on the BACB's website (BACB.org) for a BACB account and review the BACB Fieldwork Checklist and Tipsheet (located on the BACB Supervision Guidance tab) for additional guidance on starting the supervision process. Your supervisor can assist with this if needed.

STEP 3: Documentation

All experience and supervision hours must be tracked weekly. You will be provided with a tracking log to document these hours (or you are welcome to use your own). Each month this documentation will be reviewed with your supervisor and then you will be provided with a BACB Monthly Experience Verification Form.

STEP 4: Training & Resources

You will collaborate with your supervisor to identify areas to be targeted for focus and skill-building, based on your goals as a professional and any difficulties with task list content areas. Supervision time will be spent building new and enhancing current skills and understanding of behavior analytic material and practices.

STEP 5: Ongoing Performance Monitoring

Feedback will be provided to aid your growth as a practitioner in the ABA field. Accomplishments will be celebrated and adjustments to the supervision process made as needed to ensure movement in the right direction.

STEP 6: The Finale!

The supervisory relationship will end once hours have been met or supervision is discontinued. A BACB Final Experience Verification Form will be provided.

What activities count?

Restricted Activities

Unrestricted Activities

40% or less of experience hours

Delivery of therapeutic and instructional procedures such as:

Running skill-acquisition programming with clients
Running behavior-reduction programming with clients
Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
Natural Environment Training (NET)
Incidental Teaching

There is a restriction on the delivery of therapeutic and instructional procedures to ensure that experiences include the development and design of programs and systems for others to implement.

Unrestricted Activities

60% or more of experience hours

Observation and data collection
Training staff and caregivers
Conducting assessments
Meeting with stakeholders
Behavior-analytic assessment
Data graphing and analysis
Researching literature
Writing/revising programs

Unacceptable Activites

Unrestricted Activities

Unacceptable Activites

Meetings with little behavioral content
Non-behavioral intrventions
Non-behavioral administrative work
Non-behavioral trainings
Non-behavioral assessments
Attending professional conferences, workshops, or university courses
Didactic-course assignments (class homework, reading assignments, etc)

The supervisor will be responsible for determining what activities qualify for experience hours

a further look into unrestricted options

Observation & Data Collection

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Observation & Data Collection

Conduct IOA on client programs, compare results, retrain staff or refine data collection system
Conduct treatment integrity checks across staff and/or parents
Observe client and take ABC data
Use varied data collection methods for the same target behavior, summarize results and compare to true values
Design data collection sheets, including operational definitions, directions for use, explanation of measurement system
Create time sampling data collection system, take baseline data, summarize results, determine appropriate interval, train staff on system
Oversee the implementation of behavior analytic programs by others (staff training, parent training, team consultation, planning meetings)
Graph ongoing data, interpret results and present to staff, parent/guardian, professional staff both written and orally
Summarize trials to criterion data to determine skill acquisition rate, present to staff, parent/guardian, professional staff both written and orally

Meeting With Clients

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Observation & Data Collection

State intervention goals in observable and measurable terms that are understandable to the client/stakeholders
Interview stakeholders and determine priorities for goals
Conduct relevant assessments and review results with client/stakeholders
Use assessments to determine needs for service and make recommendations
Research literature relevant to a current client's programming or for specific behavior change procedures
Writing or presenting scientific work
Identify potential interventions based on assessment results and the best available scientific evidence
Discuss the risks and benefits of interventions with clients/stakeholders
Recommend intervention goals and strategies based on such factors and client preferences, supporting environments, risks, constraints, and social validity
Write or revise behavior-analytic programs
Designing, implementing, and systematically monitoring the implementation of behavior analytic programs (skill acquisition or behavior reduction) by others
Make data-based decisions about the effectiveness of the intervention and the need for treatment revision

As related to the need for behavior-analytic programming and services

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Review the literature about the assessment procedure/tool
Functional behavior assessment
Functional analysis
Stimulus preference assessments
Research appropriate assessment tools
Probing for ABLLS, AFLS, VB-MAPP goals/skills assessments
Identify assessment tools and learn how to implement them
Skills based assessments
Social skills assessments
Adaptive living skills assessments
Summarize results in written format
Make recommendations based on results, consultation, and research
Present results to client/guardian, staff, colleagues

Training Staff & Caregivers

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Review relevant literature on caregiver/staff training
Review BST literature and develop plan to implement
Review performance feedback literature
Develop a hands-on training using BST and performance feedback for staff/caregivers
Develop and deliver a formal presentation and materials on a selected topic
Conduct IOA on client programs, compare results, retrain staff/caregiver or refine programming
Conduct treatment integrity checks across staff/caregiver and deliver feedback

Conducting Assessments

Training Staff & Caregivers

Data Graphing & Analysis

Case/record review
Conduct formal and informal skill assessments
Parent/teacher/caregiver interview
Observe client in natural settings
Review current programming
Summarize assessment results in written report
Present findings to stakeholders
Review literature for interventions to target identified skills

As related to the need for behavioral intervention

Data Graphing & Analysis

Training Staff & Caregivers

Data Graphing & Analysis

Review literature about graphing and analysis
Learn graphing software program to use for client data
Review current data and determine best visual analysis display method
Develop graph(s) of client data
Summarize results and suggest next steps
Present findings to stakeholders

Motivating Operations

Identify existing intentional or unintentional motivating operations
Determine ways to take advantage of existing motivating operations to support behavior change
Determine ways to contrive motivating operations if needed
Take data on behavior change with MOs in effect
Summarize results
Present findings to stakeholders

Verbal Operants

Motivating Operations

Identify a client with some verbal operants that are strong and intact
Determine which verbal operants are weak or missing
Develop a program to address weak or missing verbal operants
Take data on behavior change with MOs in effect
Summarize results
Present findings to stakeholders

Time Sampling

Motivating Operations

Time Sampling

Collecting data on client behavior using appropriate time-sampling method
Summarize data according to varying intervals
Determine most appropriate/accurate interval length
Take data on same interval using another time-sampling method
Collect data and compare results to original interval
Summarize data
Graph results
Review with stakeholders

What Activities Are Completed By the Trainee Each Month?

Responsibility of a Trainee

1. Identify one (or more) qualified supervisors. You've found one here!

2. Log, track, and stay current on all supervision hours. Make sure to collect and safely store all tracking logs and experience verification forms for 7 years.

3. Report to BCBA supervisor specific things you've done since previous supervision session. Present any areas of success or struggle with academics, interventions, task list, ethics, or other areas. This will hold you accountable and ensure your supervisor is able to help when things arise.

4. Report any ethical dilemmas as soon as possible. Learning how to analyze ethical situations is just as important as learning how to analyze service delivery to your clients.

5. Be open an honest about experiences you're having. This will ensure you are supported adequately.

6. Understand that accumulating experience hours takes persistence and dedication.

Supervision is held for 5% of behavior analytic hours completed each month. Here's an example of what the schedule may look like.

Responsibility of BCBA Supervisor

1. Provide Supervision Contract and review expectations upon onset of experience.

2. Provide effective behavior analytic supervision. If we are not meeting your standards, please address this with us.

3. Provide hours tracking form. However, each trainee may select what tracking system works best for them.

4. Provide resources relevant to topics covered in supervision sessions, or by request of the trainee at any time.

5. Maintain open avenues of communication. Anytime there is a question, an answer can be expected within 24 hours. Email, phone, and text options are available.

6. Act as a mentor and provide supportive guidance and feedback.

7. ABA practitioner skills:

a) Clarification on ABA concepts

b) Intervention skill-building

c) Clinical questions

d) Ethical dilemmas

e) Problems encountered

f) Expanding soft skills

8. Completed experience tracker:

a) BACB monthly experience verification form for each calendar month

b) BACB final experience verification form once hours are reached or supervision is ended

Sample Supervision session format

Check in

Open dialogue

What have been your areas of success and struggle this week?

What do you need help with?

Review Programs, program binders, BIPs, FBAs, data collection, etc.

Complete observations of completed work, projects, assessments, and live or recorded video

Specific Feedback & Guidance

Outline areas of strength as well as areas to try different strategies or approaches

Identify task list items that are well understood and items to explore further

Practitioner Skill Development

Build the skills specific to your goals as a future BCBA

Prepare for the board exam and work to strengthen understanding of task list concepts

Practioner Soft Skill Development

Focus on the line between behavior analytic vs non-behavior analytic language

It is the obligation of the supervisee/trainee to schedule and attend supervision sessions with supervisor. Undelivered hours will be rolled over to following month or refunded upon request.

What We Do

Supervision

Interested in Supervision Services?

Many times, Trainees struggle with getting started counting hours and often ask: "When can i start counting hours?" and "What hours count for what? The following is a summary from the BACB experience Standards guidelines.

What Does supervision look like?

Our Service

When to Get Supervision

When to Get Supervision

When to Get Supervision

When to Get Supervision

When to Get Supervision

Why to Get Supervision

When to Get Supervision

Who Should Receive Supervision?

Who Should Receive Supervision?

Who Should Receive Supervision?

Who Should Receive Supervision?

Where is Supervision Provided?

Who Should Receive Supervision?

How Much Supervision is Needed?

How Much Supervision is Needed?

Who Should Receive Supervision?

How Much Supervision is Needed?

Starting supervision

STEP 1: Let's Get Scheduled!

STEP 2: First Meeting

STEP 3: Make it Official

STEP 3: Documentation

STEP 4: Training & Resources

STEP 5: Ongoing Performance Monitoring

STEP 6: The Finale!

What activities count?

Restricted Activities

Unrestricted Activities

Unrestricted Activities

Unrestricted Activities

Unrestricted Activities

Unrestricted Activities

Unacceptable Activites

Unrestricted Activities

Unacceptable Activites

The supervisor will be responsible for determining what activities qualify for experience hours

a further look into unrestricted options

Observation & Data Collection

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Observation & Data Collection

Meeting With Clients

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Observation & Data Collection

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Training Staff & Caregivers

Training Staff & Caregivers

Conducting Behavior Analytic Assessments

Conducting Assessments

Training Staff & Caregivers

Data Graphing & Analysis

Data Graphing & Analysis

Training Staff & Caregivers

Data Graphing & Analysis

Motivating Operations

Motivating Operations

Motivating Operations

Verbal Operants

Motivating Operations

Motivating Operations

Time Sampling

Motivating Operations

Time Sampling

Responsibility of a Trainee

Responsibility of BCBA Supervisor

Sample Supervision session format

Check in

Review Programs, program binders, BIPs, FBAs, data collection, etc.

Specific Feedback & Guidance

Practitioner Skill Development

Practioner Soft Skill Development

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