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by J. L. Burton, MA, BCBA, LBA
ABA: Beyond the Data is an ACE-approved podcast where you can earn CEUs while exploring the practice of Applied Behavior Analysis from two unique perspectives. Hosted by Jay Burton, a seasoned BCBA and parent of two wonderful boys on the autism spectrum, this show blends professional expertise with personal experience. Each episode dives into real-world challenges, fresh ideas, and practical strategies designed to improve your clinical work while keeping humanity and compassion at the core of ABA.
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- 3 days ago1h 0m
Episode 19 - The Retraining Trap
How to Purchase CEUsGo to https://www.aba-ceus.com/get-ceusSelect the CEU episode you’d like to purchase and add it to your cart.At checkout, enter the three key words listed during the episode.Complete your purchase through our secure checkout.Your CEU certificate will be emailed to you within 24–48 hours.Each submission is individually reviewed and verified, so please allow time for processing and approval.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.Description “We already trained them—so why is this still happening?” In The Retraining Trap, we explore a familiar challenge in ABA supervision: staff know what to do, but performance still falls short. Before assigning another training, how do we identify what actually needs to change?This episode of ABA Beyond the Data examines unclear expectations, skill gaps, competing consequences, and workplace barriers that can interfere with reliable performance. Through practical RBT and trainee examples, learn how to investigate concerns, match support to the problem, deliver useful feedback, and evaluate whether supervision improves everyday practice. Maintaining standards includes building conditions in which staff can meet them.
- Sep 29, 20261h 8m
Episode 18 - Professional No
How to Purchase CEUsGo to https://www.aba-ceus.com/get-ceusSelect the CEU episode you’d like to purchase and add it to your cart.At checkout, enter the three key words listed during the episode.Complete your purchase through our secure checkout.Your CEU certificate will be emailed to you within 24–48 hours.Each submission is individually reviewed and verified, so please allow time for processing and approval.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.Description BCBAs are trained to solve problems—but what happens when the ethical answer is no? In this episode of ABA Beyond the Data, we explore why behavior analysts become “yes people,” how immediate reinforcement encourages overcommitment, and when a helpful yes becomes an unethical one.Learn a framework for evaluating requests through client welfare, dignity, assent, competence, evidence, capacity, documentation, and available alternatives. We apply it to difficult conversations with RBTs, BCBAs, clinical directors, owners, caregivers, and other professionals. Designed for BCBAs, BCaBAs, RBTs, supervisors, clinical leaders, and ABA professionals seeking practical ethics guidance and continuing education. Ethics CEUs are available at aba-ceu.com.
- Aug 25, 20261h 3m
Episode 17 - Enhanced Choice Model
How to Purchase CEUsGo to https://www.aba-ceus.com/get-ceusSelect the CEU episode you’d like to purchase and add it to your cart.At checkout, enter the three key words listed during the episode.Complete your purchase through our secure checkout.Your CEU certificate will be emailed to you within 24–48 hours.Each submission is individually reviewed and verified, so please allow time for processing and approval.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.Description What does it mean to offer a learner a real choice—not simply the color of the marker, but whether to practice, step away, return, or leave?In Episode 17, we explore the Enhanced Choice Model, or ECM, and the challenge it presents to traditional BCBA thinking. He traces the model from PFA-informed Skill-Based Treatment, explains the continuously available practice, hangout, and leave options, and clarifies why hands-off treatment is not the same as contingency-free treatment.The episode reviews the foundational ECM study, later school and home applications, and the host's own clinical adaptation with a kindergarten-aged learner. It also takes an honest look at the limits of the evidence, unequal reinforcement across contexts, feasibility barriers, and the difference between offering a choice and giving that choice real influence.
- Jul 28, 20261h 19m
Episode 16 - Beyond the Bite Part 2
How to Purchase CEUsGo to https://www.aba-ceus.com/get-ceusSelect the CEU episode you’d like to purchase and add it to your cart.At checkout, enter the three key words listed during the episode.Complete your purchase through our secure checkout.Your CEU certificate will be emailed to you within 24–48 hours.Each submission is individually reviewed and verified, so please allow time for processing and approval.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.DescriptionIn Beyond the Bite, Part 2, Jay takes a practical deep dive into Dr. Holly Gover and colleagues’ work on choice, assent, and trauma-informed feeding intervention.Building on Part 1, this episode moves beyond the broad feeding landscape and breaks down what a more humane, structured ABA feeding model can actually look like in practice. Jay walks through caregiver collaboration, selecting foods that matter to real family life, preference assessment, baseline engagement, IISCA/PFA logic, and the environmental arrangement that allowed children to opt out and return voluntarily.The episode also explains the use of a visual choice board, successive approximations toward consumption, differential reinforcement, responsive changes based on learner data, and careful transfer to caregivers. Jay then connects the model to Gover’s 2024 trauma-informed work, including shared governance, social validity, and the importance of measuring more than bites consumed.This is not ABA abandoning science. It is ABA using the science with greater humility, dignity, and care.ACE-approved CEUs are available at ABA-CEUs.com.
- Jun 16, 20261h 11m
Episode 15 - Beyond the Bite - Part 1
How to Purchase CEUsGo to https://www.aba-ceus.com/get-ceusSelect the CEU episode you’d like to purchase and add it to your cart.At checkout, enter the three key words listed during the episode.Complete your purchase through our secure checkout.Your CEU certificate will be emailed to you within 24–48 hours.Each submission is individually reviewed and verified, so please allow time for processing and approval.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.DescriptionIn Part 1 of Beyond the Bite, Jay Burton, BCBA and dad of 2 boys on the spectrum, breaks down the role of ABA in feeding therapy with a focus on humility, collaboration, and scope of competence. This episode explores the difference between food selectivity and more serious feeding concerns, why older ABA feeding literature leaned heavily on escape extinction, and how the field is moving toward less intrusive, reinforcement-based strategies like shaping, fading, modeling, and differential reinforcement.Jay also discusses when BCBAs should pause and collaborate with pediatricians, SLPs, OTs, dietitians, GI specialists, and feeding teams. This episode sets the foundation for Part 2, where we will take a deeper look at Dr. Holly Gover’s work on assent-based and trauma-informed feeding intervention.
- May 20, 20261h 9m
Episode 14 - Transition Skills
How to Purchase CEUsGo to https://www.aba-ceus.com/get-ceusSelect the CEU episode you’d like to purchase and add it to your cart.At checkout, enter the three key words listed during the episode.Complete your purchase through our secure checkout.Your CEU certificate will be emailed to you within 24–48 hours.Each submission is individually reviewed and verified, so please allow time for processing and approval.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.DescriptionIn this episode of ABA Beyond the Data, Jay explores why transition skills are foundational for autistic learners and their families. From leaving preferred activities to walking safely through parking lots, transitions impact community access, family routines, and independence. Jay breaks down why transitions are hard, how to assess what part of the transition is breaking down, and practical ABA strategies BCBAs can use immediately. Listeners will learn how predictability, communication, reinforcement, shaping, and safety-focused teaching can help children move through the world with more confidence and help families live with less isolation, fear, and stress.
- Feb 26, 20261h 14m
Episode 13 - Toilet Training
How to Purchase CEUsGo to https://www.aba-ceus.com/get-ceusSelect the CEU episode you’d like to purchase and add it to your cart.At checkout, enter the three key words listed during the episode.Complete your purchase through our secure checkout.Your CEU certificate will be emailed to you within 24–48 hours.Each submission is individually reviewed and verified, so please allow time for processing and approval.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.Description: Episode 13 dives into toilet training through the lens of Applied Behavior Analysis—because my youngest is in the thick of it right now. We start with a quick, practical rebuttal to insurers who argue toileting “isn’t an autism target,” and explain why communication, social routines, and rigidity make it absolutely relevant. Then we unpack classic intensive models (Azrin & Foxx) and LeBlanc’s updates, including when ethical “positive practice” is truly warranted. Next, we cover less-intensive, family-friendly schedules and reinforcement. Finally, we spotlight urine alarms like Wet Stop. LeBlanc, L. A., Carr, J. E., Crossett, S. E., Bennett, C. M., & Detweiler, D. D. (2005). Intensive outpatient behavioral treatment of primary urinary incontinence of children with autism. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 20(2), 98–105. (Request Article if would like it). Azrin, N. H., & Foxx, R. M. (1971). A rapid method of toilet training the institutionalized retarded. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 4(2), 89–99. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1310676/ Tarbox, R. S. F., Williams, W. L., & Friman, P. C. (2004). Extended diaper wearing: Effects on continence in and out of the diaper. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37(1), 97–100. https://www.behaviorpedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Rachel-S.-F.-Tarbox-W.-Larry-Williams-Patrick-C.-Friman-2004.-Extended-diaper-wearing-Effects-on-continence-in-and-out-of-the-diaper.-Journal-of-Applied-Behavior-Analysis-37-97-100..pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com Greer, B. D., NeideA component analysis of toilet-training procedures recommended for young children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 49(1), 69–84. https://www.paneecioccolata.com/allegati/2016-10-22Angsa/Greer-etal-TOILET-TRAINING-JABA-2016.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com Patrick C. Friman and Dennis Vollmer, 1995, SUCCESSFUL USE OF THE NOCTURNAL URINE ALARM FOR DIURNAL ENURESIS, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1995, 28, 89-90 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1279792/pdf/jaba00003-0091.pdf Wireless Urine Alarm: https://a.co/d/0c4pi8H6
- Feb 10, 202658 min
Episode 12 - Review of Common FAs
How to Purchase CEUsGo to https://www.aba-ceus.com/get-ceusSelect the CEU episode you’d like to purchase and add it to your cart.At checkout, At checkout, Answer 5 Multiple Choice Questions.Complete your purchase through our secure checkout.Your CEU certificate will be emailed to you within 24–48 hours.Each submission is individually reviewed and verified, so please allow time for processing and approval.If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us anytime.Description: In this episode of ABA Beyond the Data, we break down some of the most common functional analysis (FA) formats used in Applied Behavior Analysis—without getting lost in jargon. You’ll get a clear, practical overview of the history of FAs and why they’re considered the gold standard for identifying behavioral function. Then we walk through how standard analog (Iwata-style) FAs, brief FAs, precursor FAs, and interview-informed synthesized approaches (IISCA/PFA) work, what research supports them, and how to choose the most defensible option for your setting. Perfect for BCBAs who want to stay function-based and clinically practical.Sources*On the Reliability and Treatment Utility of the Practical Functional Assessment Process - Rajaraman - 2022https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9582185/*Toward A Functional Analysis of Self Injury - Iwata - 1994https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1297798/pdf/jaba00008-0005.pdf*PRODUCING MEANINGFUL IMPROVEMENTS IN PROBLEMBEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM VIA SYNTHESIZED ANALYSES AND TREATMENTS - Hanley - 2025 https://practicalfunctionalassessment.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/here.pdf*A BRIEF FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF AGGRESSIVE ANDALTERNATIVE BEHAVIOR IN AN OUTCLINIC SETTING- Northup - 1991https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1279601/pdf/jaba00021-0113.pdf*Identification of environmental determinants of behavior disorders through functional analysis of precursor behaviors - Smith - 2002https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1284370/*Functional analysis of problem behavior: a review. - Hanley - 2003 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1284431/
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ABA: Beyond the Data is an ACE-approved podcast where you can earn CEUs while exploring the practice of Applied Behavior Analysis from two unique perspectives. Hosted by Jay Burton, a seasoned BCBA and parent of two wonderful boys on the autism spectrum, this show blends professional expertise with personal experience. Each episode dives into real-world challenges, fresh ideas, and practical strategies designed to improve your clinical work while keeping humanity and compassion at the core of ABA.
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