ABA for School Refusal: Common Roots & Directions for Growth with Dr. Vanessa Tucker, BCBA-D

Dr. Vanessa Tucker, BCBA-D

Connections Behavior Planning and Intervention welcomes Dr. Vanessa Tucker, BCBA-D, for a webinar on School Refusal considerations in ABA.

See Dr. Tucker’s other webinars here.

Abstract:

Why do some students refuse to go to school? Why do some students refuse to participate when they are at school?

Districts have struggled to address this behavior, which impacts school access as well as family systems. In addition, the worldwide pandemic has contributed to this and increased the possibility of school refusal for students with ASD and other disabilities. As a BCBA, you are most likely familiar with this behavior and may be struggling to address it.

In this training, we will ask the question, what do we already know about school refusal? What does the literature say, and how can that assist us to make good decisions? We will look at how school refusal impacts the child, family and school system and how to capture that in functional behavior assessments. We will also look at answering the fundamental question: What do we do about it?

About the Presenter:

Dr. Vanessa Tucker, BCBA-D, is a board certified behavior analyst (doctoral level) who practices privately with a focus on providing program supports, interventions, mentoring and evaluations in school settings. She is also an Associate Professor of Special Education at Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland, WA. She has been teaching and/or coordinating special education programs for 25 years, and has been in the field of ABA for 10. Her primary areas of interest are the application of ABA in the school setting and behavior interventions for students with complex support needs.

Vanessa got her general and special education certification in 1995 from Western Washington University. She obtained her Masters in Low Incidence Disabilities in 2002 from the University of Washington and her Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism from the University of Washington in 2009. She has worked as a special education teacher, program coordinator and consultant.

Learning Objectives:

Discuss of the current state of knowledge regarding school refusal
Explore ways of operationalizing and addressing school refusal in functional behavior assessments
Discuss strategies to support schools, families and students to access school

CEU’s included, and Cost to Attend:

3.0 Learning BACB CEU’s
- $59.99 (CEU’s included in price)

For questions, challenges with registration, or any other needed information, please contact Dusty, Director of Continuing Education and ACE Coordinator for CBPI, LLC, at continuingeducation@connections-behavior.com.

Connections Behavior Planning & Intervention, LLC, is a BACB-Approved ACE Provider (Provider # OP-17-2781). The BACB does not directly sponsor or endorse this event, its speakers, or its content.

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