Level 1 Basic Autism and ABA Training Library (8 Modules)

For a longer study window, this annual library offers seven recorded modules on ABA teaching and classroom participation. You can choose the order in which you study. Pairing is being revised. Read each module summary, its learner feedback and the course-certificate distinction before choosing annual access.

Current recording list: Seven recordings are offered below. The historical eight-module list also contains Pairing. Pairing is being revised and is not part of what this library offers today.

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This is introductory recorded teaching. It does not provide an individualized assessment or intervention plan. Examples, devices and cited research reflect the recordings’ original context.

Seven recordings offered now

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1. ABA Overview

   Michele LaMarche introduces ABA through everyday examples, observable behavior definitions, antecedents and consequences, reinforcement, prompting and behavior chains. The recording walks through collecting data before and after a change and examining what the data show.

2. Methods of Teaching Overview

   Michele LaMarche compares natural environment teaching, mix and vary, teaching across verbal operants, discrete trial training and behavior chains. Examples examine prerequisite skills, response effort, practice, breaks and reinforcement, followed by forward chaining, backward chaining and total task presentation.

3. Errorless Teaching and Prompting

   Michele LaMarche explains vocal, visual, physical, model, gestural, looking and positional prompts. She discusses consistent prompt levels across a team, systematic fading, prompt dependency and error correction, with demonstrations introduced in the recording.

4. Active Student Responding: Increasing Learner's Motivation and Self-Monitoring

   Michele LaMarche and Miranda Schehr examine choral responding, response cards, guided notes, computer-assisted instruction and peer tutoring. Classroom examples explore observing participation and giving feedback. They discuss privacy when answers are visible to others and limits of competitive approaches.

5. Strategies to Increase Beginner Classroom Participation Skills: Teaching Methods in Application

   Michele LaMarche compares eight classroom teaching approaches: discrete trial training, natural environment training, mix and vary, verbal behavior programming, pivotal response training, fluency-based instruction, direct instruction and peer-mediated intervention. She discusses motivation, data, generalization and the implementer’s training when selecting a method.

6. Intro to Strategies to Increase Beginner Classroom Participation Skills

   Michele LaMarche introduces assessment of skills, communication, motivation, and classroom and task conditions before examining reinforcement programs, visual supports and self-management. Recorded classroom examples compare individual and group approaches, including cautions about everyone losing a reward when one learner struggles.

7. Strategies to Increase Beginner Classroom Participation Skills: Decreasing Problem Behavior with an FBA Part 1: How to Begin

   Christine Austin, as credited in the recording, walks through defining an observable target, interviewing people who know the learner, collecting ABC observations and comparing hypotheses about behavior. The recording describes prerequisites for qualified clinical functional analysis. Detailed intervention instruction is deferred to Part 2.

Pairing: Pairing is being revised and is not part of what this library offers today.

Quizzes and certificates

There is no final exam and no course certificate. Each session has its own quiz; when you pass it, that session’s certificate is emailed to you.

Recorded teaching and materials

Recorded presenters: Michele LaMarche, Miranda Schehr, Christine Austin. Christine Austin is the name credited in the recording. The linked profiles contain historical biographies.

The video sessions are not downloadable; the slide decks are.

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Session evaluations

Source: Special Learning course evaluations, rating snapshot October 13, 2026, at 2:57 p.m. Central. Counts use the latest rating answer per customer account and recording, including partial answers. Repeat submissions are not added again. Means use complete six-item forms. These are evaluations of the named recordings; a collection-wide mean is not calculated.

N/A means this snapshot contains no calculable mean for ABA Overview or Methods of Teaching Overview.

In learners’ words

Anonymous 2023 answers to “How can we make this training better?”, from the October 11, 2026 comment snapshot. These responses concern the named recordings and do not establish outcomes from buying this library.

I think that it was great training. I really appreciated the video examples, exemplary materials and practical examples.

Training improvement response, 2023; Active Student Responding: Increasing Learner's Motivation and Self-Monitoring

It was great, maybe more video examples of some of the teaching methods of active student responding

Training improvement response, 2023; Active Student Responding: Increasing Learner's Motivation and Self-Monitoring

give more info on not only what questions we got wrong but what the answer is especially wen coming so close to passing

Training improvement response, 2023; Strategies to Increase Beginner Classroom Participation Skills: Decreasing Problem Behavior with an FBA Part 1: How to Begin

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