46: Tim Courtney Talks About Everything
The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria
Matt Cicoria
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2018
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Topics Covered: OBM... check; Supervision...check; Medical necessity... check; Mens' fashion... What?!?! OK, let me explain. Tim Courtney of Little Star ABA joins me to cover what can only be considered a wide range of topics in Session 46 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast. Tim talks about how he learned about ABA by going to the gym, how he got started in ABA with the help of some key mentors, how he joined up with Little Star and became their Chief Operating Officer, and how they are implementing high quality ABA programs across a large number of clinicians and learners. Tim is a nationally recognized expert in the area of medical necessity, and regularly gives workshops on this topic across the United States. In this episode, he shares some tips on this in our discussion as well as answers questions from listeners. Little Star has also pioneered what they call an apprentice model of supervision, which from my point of view, seems like a win-win opportunity for both the aspiring behavior analyst and the organization. It has been so effective that Little Star does not actively recruit for BCBA's. As such, I couldn't resist asking some questions about this process, which was also written about in a recent issue of Behavior Analysis in Practice. Here are some links to tools and articles that Tim shared with us: BAP article Treatment Intensity Exercise PMA Experience Checklist The Mental Health Parity Act I hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did. There's definitely a round 2 in the works, so please feel free to let me know if you have additional questions for Tim! Session 46 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast is sponsored by Chartlytics.com and Operantcoffee.com. Chartlytics has set up a special page on their site for listeners to this podcast. Specifically, they are offering the following: A free webinar that provides a 1-Credit Type 2 Continuing Education Unit A free eBook on Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charting A 10% discount on upcoming Chartlytics workshops To learn more about these discounts and freebies, go to Chartlytics.com/matt. If you want some awesome coffee that is sustainably produced that happens to be 10% off, go to operantcoffee.com/shop and use the discount code BEHAVIORCOFFEE.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Behavioral Observations podcast with Matt Secorio, session number 46. |
| 0:12.5 | Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior analysts. |
| 0:20.0 | Now here's your host, Matt Secoria. |
| 0:24.1 | Hey, everyone, it's Matt here. Welcome to session 46 of the behavioral observations podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | I am so excited to be joined today by Tim Courtney. Tim is the chief operating officer of Little Star |
| 0:37.1 | ABA. And he's also a nationally recognized expert on all things medical necessity. |
| 0:43.3 | So we do talk quite a bit about that. |
| 0:46.3 | And we also share some listener questions about this topic. |
| 0:50.3 | It's a common pain point for folks in practice, and he gives us a little kind of tutorial on |
| 0:56.8 | this sort of thing so we also talk about their unique model for supervision it's the |
| 1:01.6 | apprenticeship model which I think is pretty neat and finally we get into a little tangent if you |
| 1:09.7 | will on men's fashion yep that's that's right. You're listening to the |
| 1:13.7 | correct podcast here. We did take a little detour. Tim is not only a national expert on medical |
| 1:21.1 | necessity, but he's also very well known for being a snappy dresser. So he answers some pretty, I guess, selfish questions on my part, where he is |
| 1:31.8 | known for this sort of thing. I am the non-example, if you will. So he takes a few minutes to help |
| 1:39.2 | a brother out. So for the fellas out there, you might want to say to the very end to catch that. |
| 1:44.7 | So we had a fun conversation. |
| 1:46.4 | We left so many items on the table as well that we are definitely planning a second interview. |
| 1:53.2 | So if there are things that we brought up that you want to hear more about, feel free to let me know. |
| 1:59.0 | You can comment on social media |
| 2:01.4 | or you can reach out to me |
| 2:02.9 | at behavioral observations.com |
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