S1E11: CEU Eligible ABA is for Adults Too: Making Research Usable in Everyday Practice

For those of you who have been following along in Season 1, you may be a bit confused and be thinking, how did we get here exactly? This seems like a big jump.

For those of you who just popped in today, you may be like, how does this relate to anything else that Alina's talked about this season? Well, it does.

All season long, we talked, well, you got to know me a little bit, but we also talked a lot about self-care.

And how we can create values-based plans to increase and maintain our longevity and our passion for the field.

It's all about taking care of ourselves in ways that are accessible, realistic, and allow us to sometimes fail.

We need those systems in place.

And what we focused on last episode, I believe was autonomy.

And I think I even referenced adult services and ABA.

They go hand in hand and you'll see why in just a few moments.

Today's ABA CEU, it's a podcast style.

CEU is titled ABA is for adults too.

We're going to make research usable in every day practice.

If you've ever read a research article and thought, that looks really great, but how do I actually use that with my client, in my setting, with my team? This session is for you.

If you are working in the adult services field, you have a child who will be an adult at some point and you're looking to plan for this, this session is for you.

If you're here and you just want to expand your knowledge, better apply research to practice, And be able to get out there and learn what else is going on.

Even for the own clients that you work with this session is also for you.

So today we're going to walk through a repeatable process.

We're going to move from single research findings to these small, responsible practice tests in your everyday work.

Uh, we're not here to try to turn any of you into a full-time researcher.

Although to know me, you must know that I love research.

We're just trying to make the research usable.

Without overwhelming your schedule or honestly compromising anyone that you're serving.

So our main anchor today is actually the chapter by Gerhardt and colleagues in 2022.

It's titled I'm predicting the future recommendations for the field of ABA and supporting adults with ASD.

It does appear in the handbook of quality of life for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

For those of you who have been following along in Season 1, you may be a bit confused and be thinking, how did we get here exactly? This seems like a big jump.

For those of you who just popped in today, you may be like, how does this relate to anything else that Alina's talked about this season? Well, it does.

All season long, we talked, well, you got to know me a little bit, but we also talked a lot about self-care.

And how we can create values-based plans to increase and maintain our longevity and our passion for the field.

It's all about taking care of ourselves in ways that are accessible, realistic, and allow us to sometimes fail.

We need those systems in place.

And what we focused on last episode, I believe was autonomy.

And I think I even referenced adult services and ABA.

They go hand in hand and you'll see why in just a few moments.

Today's ABA CEU, it's a podcast style.

CEU is titled ABA is for adults too.

We're going to make research usable in every day practice.

If you've ever read a research article and thought, that looks really great, but how do I actually use that with my client, in my setting, with my team? This session is for you.

If you are working in the adult services field, you have a child who will be an adult at some point and you're looking to plan for this, this session is for you.

If you're here and you just want to expand your knowledge, better apply research to practice, And be able to get out there and learn what else is going on.

Even for the own clients that you work with this session is also for you.

So today we're going to walk through a repeatable process.

We're going to move from single research findings to these small, responsible practice tests in your everyday work.

Uh, we're not here to try to turn any of you into a full-time researcher.

Although to know me, you must know that I love research.

We're just trying to make the research usable.

Without overwhelming your schedule or honestly compromising anyone that you're serving.

So our main anchor today is actually the chapter by Gerhardt and colleagues in 2022.

It's titled I'm predicting the future recommendations for the field of ABA and supporting adults with ASD.

It does appear in the handbook of quality of life for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.