Matt Harrington

This post helps ABA clinicians translate assessment data into clear, ethical intervention recommendations that fit the client, setting, and resources. It integrates four inputs—assessment results, scientific evidence, client/family preferences, and contextual feasibility—to guide effective, least-restrictive decisions. Expect practical steps, data-driven decision rules, and real-world examples that support durable, client-centered change.

This post is for BCBA supervisors, clinic directors, and experienced RBTs stepping into supervisory roles. It offers practical, ethics-centered strategies to establish and sustain effective supervisory relationships in ABA. It shows how to use supervisory data and observations to make clear, defensible clinical decisions that protect clients and support supervisee growth.

This guide is for BCBAs, clinic owners, and senior behavior technicians delivering ABA services. It shows how to identify and apply legal, regulatory, and practice requirements so you can turn ABA data into clear, ethical decisions that protect clients and your practice. Covering telehealth across state lines, mandated reporting, HIPAA, and payer requirements, it offers practical steps to stay compliant and make sound clinical decisions.

This blog post is for BCBAs, clinic directors, senior therapists, and clinicians who design and interpret ABA assessments. It explains how to design and evaluate assessments that identify relevant skill strengths and areas of need, turning data into clear, ethical decisions that matter to clients and families. You’ll learn to clarify referral questions, align measurements with real-life goals, and use results across contexts to guide decisions with dignity and consent.

This post is for BCBA students and practicing clinicians who want to ensure their ABA data accurately reflect what they’re measuring. It clarifies validity vs. reliability, direct versus indirect measurement, and the role of precise operational definitions, interobserver agreement, and artifacts. With practical guidance on measurement planning and monitoring, it helps you turn data into clear, ethical decisions that support client progress.

This post is for BCBAs, supervisors, and clinical teams who want to use objective ABA data to judge whether an intervention is working and when modification is needed. It provides a practical, ethical cycle of data collection, fidelity checks, and pre‑planned decision rules to guide continuation, adjustment, or termination. The goal is to turn data into clear, defensible decisions that protect clients and improve outcomes.

For BCBAs, supervisors, RBTs, and clinicians, this post clarifies positive and negative reinforcement and shows how to design, evaluate, and implement procedures ethically. It emphasizes data-driven decisions using baselines, IOA, and social validity, with a focus on immediacy, fading, and the least-restrictive approach. By turning ABA data into clear, actionable guidance, it helps practitioners foster independence and meaningful outcomes.

Designed for BCBAs, clinic owners, supervisors, and experienced RBTs, this post helps you turn ABA data and clinical plans into clear, ethical decisions through stronger professional relationships. It offers practical interpersonal skills—active listening, plain-language explanations, cultural humility, and boundary management—as foundations for trust, adherence, and collaborative care. Use these guidelines across intake, consent, parent coaching, supervision, and team meetings to protect client welfare and reduce miscommunication.

Designed for BCBAs, clinic leaders, RBT supervisors, and clinically informed caregivers, this ABA-focused guide helps you stop guessing when a client isn’t progressing. It defines procedural integrity (treatment fidelity), explains why ethical measurement matters, and shows how to collect and interpret fidelity data separately from outcomes. Follow a practical four-phase workflow—set up, measure, interpret, decide—to turn fidelity data into retraining, protocol adjustments, or re-evaluation of the intervention. The emphasis is on turning data into clear, ethical clinical decisions that protect clients and guide sound practice.

This guide helps BCBAs, supervisors, clinic directors, and senior clinicians turn single-case experimental design (SCED) data into clear, ethically grounded decisions. It walks you through visual analysis of graphs, experimental control versus correlation, and threats to validity so you can tell whether an intervention caused change or if factors need consideration. With a practical critique checklist and emphasis on treatment integrity, this post supports real-time decision-making that protects clients and preserves professional credibility.