Basic ABA Training Library
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Parents, educators and professionals can use this four-recording library to study introductory autism, ABA, teaching-method and communication concepts. The recordings use historical examples and language; the current-practice notes below explain important limits. Pairing is being revised and is excluded from the offer.
Current recording list: Four recordings are offered below. The historical five-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 study. It does not provide an individualized assessment or intervention plan.
Four recordings offered now
What is Autism?
Sarah Winningham presents a historical introduction to autism, including communication, social interaction, routines and everyday examples. Diagnostic explanations, prevalence figures and research discussions belong to the recording’s original context. It is not current diagnostic guidance.
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.
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.
Mand Training Across Modalities: Effective Methods to Teach Functional Communication
Erin Lombard compares vocal words, signs, picture exchange, low-tech AAC and high-tech AAC in a recorded introduction to functional communication. She examines task analysis, data collection and shaping through examples. Her discussion of prerequisite skills needs the current AAC context below.
Pairing: Pairing is being revised and is not part of what this library offers today.
Read with current context
ASHA states that AAC intervention has no prerequisites. The communication recording’s discussion of prerequisite skills should not be read as a reason to withhold communication support. Read ASHA’s AAC guidance.
The autism introduction contains broad statements about social motivation and empathy. These should not be treated as universal descriptions of autistic people. WHO explains that autistic people’s abilities and needs vary and can change over time. Read WHO’s autism overview alongside the historical recording.
Recorded teaching and materials
Recorded presenters: Sarah Winningham, Michele LaMarche, Erin Lombard. The linked profiles contain historical biographies.
Slide decks accompany the offered recordings.
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Please note: some recordings in this product display an on-screen verification code. That code belongs to the recording and is used for BACB continuing-education records — it does not tell you whether this purchase includes CE credit. Your CE record is in your Special Learning account. If you are not sure whether you earned CE for this purchase, contact us and we will check it for you.
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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.
| Recording | Mean / 5 | Rating answers | Complete six-item forms |
|---|---|---|---|
| What is Autism? | N/A | 0 | 0 |
| ABA Overview | N/A | 0 | 0 |
| Methods of Teaching Overview | N/A | 0 | 0 |
| Mand Training Across Modalities: Effective Methods to Teach Functional Communication | 4.02 | 345 | 41 |
N/A means this snapshot contains no calculable mean for What is Autism?, ABA Overview or Methods of Teaching Overview.
In learners’ words
These anonymous 2023 responses to “How can we make this training better?” concern only Mand Training Across Modalities, from the October 11, 2026 comment snapshot. They are not evaluations of the other recordings or evidence of outcomes from buying this library.
The training made in an excellent way does not need improvement.
Training improvement response, 2023; Mand Training Across Modalities: Effective Methods to Teach Functional Communication
I thought that it was very effective. Video examples employing and demonstrating techniques would have supported understanding and implementation.
Training improvement response, 2023; Mand Training Across Modalities: Effective Methods to Teach Functional Communication
See above - update to reflect NT affirming research Better collaboration with SLP should be emphasized
Training improvement response, 2023; Mand Training Across Modalities: Effective Methods to Teach Functional Communication
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Meet the Presenters
Sarah Winningham, MA, BCBA is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst from Indiana. She received her Master?s degree in Special Education from Ball State University with certifications in Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism. Sarah has been working with students on the Autism Spectrum for almost 9 years.
She has worked for three ABA centers as a therapist, trainer, clinical lead and clinical director. She is currently an adjunct member at Capella University teaching Master?s level ABA courses and developing Continuing Education and training materials for Special Learning.
Michele LaMarche is the co-founder of Special Learning, Inc. She is also the founder and Executive Director of Step By Step Academy (SBSA), a centre-based non-profit autism treatment centre in Columbus, Ohio. Ms. LaMarche has worked in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for more than fifteen years, and she develops the ABA curricula used in SBSA's programs.
Erin Lombard is currently a behavior consultant with over 12 years of experience working with children with autism and developmental disabilities in homes, schools, and center based programs. She was previously a certified Special Education teacher in Arizona. Along with providing consultation through SBSA, she also currently teaches graduate level Positive Behavior Support courses at Northern Arizona University.
Erin is originally from California where she finished her undergraduate degree in Child and Adolescent Studies from California State University, Fullerton. She obtained her master's degree in Special Education from the University of Phoenix. She completed her coursework in applied behavior analysis through the University of North Texas. She is currently working on her PhD in Psychology at Capella University.
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