Objectives

After completing this course, students will:

  • Identify hurdles often encountered in working with parents

  • Understand techniques to protect parent dignity and empower parents.

  • Know educational goals that are commonly needed in parent training

  • Identify the 5 steps to effective parent skill building

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Turning Parents Into Partners

    • Welcome!

    • Downloads

    • Pretest Instructions

    • Pretest

    • Welcome!

  • 2

    Expanding the Definition of Client

    • Video #1

    • Quiz #1

  • 3

    Evaluating the Parental Needs; Pairing and Education

    • Video #2

    • Quiz #2

  • 4

    Empowering Parents: Skills, Prompts and Reinforcement

    • Video #3

    • Quiz #3

  • 5

    Generalizing Skills from Therapy to the Home Setting

    • Video #4

    • Quiz #4

  • 6

    Filling in the Gaps

    • Video #5

    • Quiz #5

  • 7

    Completion Survey

    • Confirmation of Student Profile Information for CEUs Certificate

    • Survey

Turning Parents into Partners

Gain a broad perspective on your role in collaborating with parents on their life-long journey as parents of a special needs child.

You’ve learned so much and have experience dealing with the special needs children who are your clients. You feel confident in your abilities to bring about improvement and make progress with them. Learn relevant tips and ideas on guiding parents in the many different aspects related to parenting their ASD child. But what about Mom and Dad? Does your stomach twist in knots when you think about parent training sessions? Do you feel unprepared and unsure of how to guide and relate to the parents of your client?

Instructor

Sara M Pitterman

MSED BCBA LBA- NY

Sara M’s extensive expertise in a number of settings coupled with the articulate, down-to-earth manner that she presents with, will surely help you out in your work as a BCBA. Here’s Sara M’s experience at a glance: She worked as a special education teacher in a Board of Ed funded special ed classroom setting, in both preschool and lower elementary school classes. She ran a private practice training parents to run behavior management programs at home. She worked as an adjunct professor for 3 semesters in Mercy College. She is currently a BCBA for an insurance funded agency in Jersey. She works with clients ranging in age from 2.5-17 years old diagnosed with ASD in mainstream and self-contained settings. Many of her clients have a co-morbid diagnosis as well.

You don’t have to rely on our word alone.

Hear from others in the field *in their own words* why this course has been a favorite among competent BCBAs just like you:

5 star rating

Turning Parents into Partners

Excellent, common sense approach to applying what we know about ABA principles in the "real world" Should be required watching for everyone who works with parents and does our work!

Excellent, common sense approach to applying what we know about ABA principles in the "real world" Should be required watching for everyone who works with parents and does our work!

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Cheryl Desrosiers

5 star rating

Informative and Practical!

Sara Muschel

5 star rating

excellent

Watching this course puts a whole new spin on parent training. This insightful course has transformed the way I, as a BCBA, view parent training, and hopefully the parents of my clients will reap the benefits as well.... Thought-provoking, informa...

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Watching this course puts a whole new spin on parent training. This insightful course has transformed the way I, as a BCBA, view parent training, and hopefully the parents of my clients will reap the benefits as well.... Thought-provoking, informative, and highly engaging!!!

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