With as many as 50% of children experiencing sleep problems at some point during childhood (Center for Disease Control, 2022) and up to 80% of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder experiencing sleep problems (e.g., Furfaro, 2020 and Reynolds, 2019), many Board Certified Behavior Analysts find themselves treating behavioral sleep problems within the scope of Applied Behavior Analysis programming. However, Behavior Analysts do not receive training in the variables impacting healthy sleep such as average sleep needs by age, setting events which delay sleep onset and manipulate the reinforcing value of sleep, or sleep dependencies which contribute to pervasive night awakenings. In the absence of formal training on sleep and sleep-related variables during behavior analytical coursework, ethical barriers may arise. This Continuing Education event aims to unveil the potential for questionable ethical behavior when developing sleep plans for families. Additionally, this event will provide preliminary information about sleep which attendees will be able to use immediately to better evaluate sleep problems and create sleep plans guided by the ethical considerations outlined in the content.
Learning Objectives
- Identifying your scope of competence when programming for sleep changes
- Common misconceptions about sleep, which lead to ethical grey-areas
- Avoiding ethical blind-spots
About the Presenter
This course was very enlightening. It broke down tools for beginning to end of day and what to practice through out the day. You can not only practice being alone at bedtime when they are tired. understand wake up times are very important to know what time they will be tired, to have a positive association to the bedroom and setting the kiddo up for success with sleeping on their own by putting them down or leaving the room sleepy. She also shared tactics to do during the the day with screen time and having the child play alone to practice for night time. If the only time you have them be alone is at night it is not going to be successful.
I have done sleep before but learnt so many new things from this CEU
This training contained valuable information that I will be able to utilize in my practice
Emily clearly knows what she is talking about! This was a very informative session dealing with needs of the child and their families in an intelligent, insightful, sensitive, respectful and professional manner! And true to the science. I will definitely be recommending this to others.
The speaker had great pace. The facts, the examples and the science which backed them up were solid and precise. Finally, the resources and the applicability of all that was mentioned was outstanding.
This course was so helpful! It pointed out a lot of pieces that I never thought of as a clinician or a parent. The price for these courses is also amazing. Definitely recommend taking this if any of your clients struggle with sleep
Almost exhaustive review of behavioral sleep interventions - well done! Good resource to be better informed on all things sleep, including HOW to take Melatonin: Alon Avidan, MD, MPH, UCLA Health Getting familiar with sleep disorders is a good idea if you have learners with sleep issue that do not remit after implementing all recommended by Ms. Varon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3oAc2HhLd4
Course information
- Title: Sleep Programming: What you thought you knew!
- Presenter: Emily Varon BCBA
- CEUs: 2 Learning
- Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes
- Customer Rating: (151)