Can only be Sebas use ADH strategies with students in the classroom. No, certainly not. I mean, most of our evidence based practices in autism, for instance, are based on applied behavior analysis. And for a long, long time, these practices were being implemented before we even had a certification of a board certified behavior analyst.
The certificate certified level behavior analyst. And so you'll see it, you'll see it implemented by speech pathologist. You see parents, you know, there's books on the market with strategies that are written by behavioral individuals that parents are using. So, no, definitely not behavior analysts are a special group of individuals.
And so they have a whole degree, like they have very specific programming related to applied behavior analysis. Not maybe not a whole degree yet, but I think that's what we're going to feel. But special programming and they pass the competency test. So they have some very specific knowledge related to applied behavior analysis, and they've demonstrated competencies in that race.
So that's kind of the difference. Oftentimes, behavior analysts and schools provide additional supports. They may train other folks to implement behavioral strategies. They may really, in my experience, will have a lot of behavioral style work with some really intense cases where other folks have not been successful because they can really hone in on that environment, that individual in those relations and look at data, provide feedback to the team.
But no, certainly you can implement most behavior analytic practices outside and not be a behavior analyst in school settings.
BCBAs are trained to use defined methods for applied behavior analysis, but can anyone use these strategies? Dr. Pennington explains.
