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At Butterfly Effects, we believe that knowledge and compassion go hand-in-hand. The deeper our understanding, the greater our ability becomes to play an effective role in the lives of individuals with special needs.



Our training programs will help you develop the knowledge and skills needed to be active partners in helping individuals with special needs achieve lives of inclusion and realized potential.

Butterfly Effects' Behavior Instructor Basics (BIB) Certification Course is designed to provide a practical working knowledge of the basic principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). It will provide you with the knowledgebase needed to work as a line therapist in ABA programs under the direction of licensed or certified personnel.

Written for clarity and ease-of-learning by leading professionals with years of field and teaching experience, this highly interactive course is designed to improve the practical teaching and intervention skills of:

• Parents and relatives
• Caregivers
• Paraprofessionals
• Teachers and educational staff
• Students in social services, education, and psychology

Offering a certification upon successful completion, our BIB course will provide you with the knowledge and validation needed to enhance your intervention skills and advance your professional career.

The BIB course is designed to improve the effectiveness of those interacting with individuals with Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Alzheimer's, or Psychiatric Conditions.

Learn online from any computer at your own pace.
Accessible online 24 /7 via your own personal account on our dedicated CentralReach platform, the entire course can be completed as your schedule permits. It includes:

• Real life examples
• Teaching videos
• Study guides for each section
• The ability to review material as often as you want
• A final exam that can be taken as often as needed

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the most widely used scientific approach for enhancing socialization and encouraging learning.
Backed by over 30 years of research findings, as well as our own in-depth experience, the principles of ABA provide the core philosophy and practical approaches that have improved countless outcomes. While the course will confirm some things you already know, the specifics of ABA must be learned to provide the kind of consistent intensive interventions needed to affect real growth and real change as quickly and efficiently as possible.

ABA-based interventions are most effective when they are applied no less than 20 hours over a week across all natural environments. To achieve that sort of comprehensive implementation requires the active participation of all those who have or are assigned responsibility for the client. This course will help everyone be on the same page when applying the gentle methods based on ABA.

Once learned, the principles of ABA will inform every interaction you have with your child, spouse, student, or client. It will help with basic teaching as well as situations where major behavioral changes are needed.

Training in ABA will help you define and expand your role and encourage you to approach the teaching of both life and academic skills with greater confidence.

The Butterfly Effects BIB Certification Course will help parents and other caregivers:

• Improve the way you communicate
• Become more effective life skill teachers and academic tutors
• Understand why encouragement and positive reinforcement provide the most effective approach
• How and when to use punishment
• Become more effective contributors to IEPs and other intervention plans

It will help paraprofessionals, teachers, and students:

• Meet continuing education requirements
• Expand their range of services
• Be more effective in their jobs
• Learn how to better understand and develop intervention strategies

Among other topics, the BIB course:

• Fully explains the ABA treatment model
• Shows how to develop verbal behavior skills
• Improves social skills training
• Demonstrates use of natural environment teaching
• Explores teaching strategies including simple motivation systems
• Delves into various approaches to assessment including indirect and descriptive assessments, as well as Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA)
• Covers behavior management, including prevention strategies
• Discusses data collection and analysis
• Covers ABA in the classroom, including determination of classroom readiness and behavior management in the classroom

At Butterfly Effects, we believe that here is no substitute for compassion, but when that compassion is informed by knowledge, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.


*Butterfly Effects is a continuing education provider approved by the following national accrediting organizations:
    BACB - Behavior Analyst Certification Board, #OP-07-0153
    ASHA - American Speech and Language Pathologists, ACGU


All of our CEU credit hour courses and non-CEU courses follow these guidelines:

• 100% online, including materials, videos, coursework, tests and certificates
• Unlimited access to your account to review all course information
• Take the online test as many times as you wish
• Certificate available and printable online