The three types of student in a 40-Hour RBT course

 If you're worked in Applied Behavior Analysis for awhile, or if you or your child is a consumer of ABA services, you know that a wide variety of people take the 40-hour course that's the first step in becoming a Registered Behavior Technician.

You may also have noticed that those people break into three distinct groups. 

In this blog post we'll talk about the first (and potentially the largest) of those groups: Parents and or practitioners (educators) who intend to use knowledge from the course but are not interested in pursuing of registration.

If you're one of those people, you likely wonder if the materials and information presented in the videos and instructional materials in a 40-hour course are in a format that is can be used by you to work with your child and or student. 

The answer is that many, but certainly not all, of the 40-hour courses offered online are perfect for people who want to learn Applied Behavior Analysis techniques, but don't want a career as an RBT. 

For example, we believe the information you learn by completing this 40 hour course will assist you in developing “instructional control” -- a key concept in ABA that will allow you to work more successfully  with your child/student.

In future blog posts, we'll talk about the other two groups who can benefit from a 40-hour RBT course: a) people who wish to have careers as RBTs, and b) people who plan to pursue additional education and become Board Certified Behavior Analysts or Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts.

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