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ABA Inside Track

Episode 188 - Professional Collaboration (OT Edition) w/ Dr. Michael Roberts

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7634 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

In the latest in our professional collaboration series, we're joined with Dr. Michael Roberts, occupational therapist extrordinaire, to get to the bottom of the BCBA-OT practitioner divide. We have an illuminating time reviewing where BCBA's misunderstand OTs, OTs misunderstand BCBAs, and how much common ground both fields actually have. Guess you'll be the judge if this episode turned out to be our Kumbaya moment or not.

This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU.

Articles discussed this episode:

Whiting, C.C. & Muirhead, K. (2019). Interprofessional collaborative practice between occupational therapists and behavior analysts for children with autism.  Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention, 12, 466-475.  doi: 10.1080/19411243.2019.1672603

Gasiewski, K., Weiss, M.J., Leaf, J.B., & Labowitz, J. (2021). Collaboration between behavior analysis and occupational therapists in autism service provision: Bridging the gap.  Behavior Analysis in Practice, 14, 1209-1222.  doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00619-y

White, H., Stokes, T.F., Simons, E., Longerbeam, M., Richardson, E., & Zinn, T. (2018). Interprofessional practice for simultaneous implementation of merged techniques from three disciplines: OT SLP ABA.  Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, 12, 1-7.  doi: 10.1016/j.xjep.2018.04.001

Welch, C.D. & Polatajko, H.J. (2016). Applied behavior analysis, autism, and occupational therapy: A search for understanding. The America Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70, 1-5. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2016.018689

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA and Side Track the podcast. That's like reading in your car, but safer.

0:19.8

I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as

0:21.6

always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey, Rob, it's Dana. And it's me, Jackie. You know,

0:28.7

you know, folks, sometimes when we do this podcast about behavior analysis and behavior

0:32.3

analytic research, I say, let's just record only for BCBA's, you know, behavior analyst. That's it. I don't want

0:39.6

anyone else on the show. I don't want to work with anyone, you know, when I go share behavior

0:44.0

analysis. I just want to tell everyone this is how it is. It's the only way to be and go pounce

0:48.3

if you think differently. But, you know, that's one of the reasons I have-

0:51.3

That's really good because you don't really like to share your time. I don't want to share anything, but that's probably one of the reasons I haven't had a job,

0:54.8

a real job, over a decade at this point.

0:57.9

So, you know, we were talking and we thought...

0:59.3

They say no man in as an island, except for Rob.

1:02.2

Except for me.

1:02.8

We were talking about it.

1:03.6

We said, you know, we talked with a speech and language pathologist, and that was pretty fun.

1:14.5

And then I said, but no more.

1:15.9

I don't want to talk to anybody else.

1:17.0

No other professionals.

1:17.5

That was back in episode 171.

1:19.0

Yeah.

1:19.4

Yeah.

1:19.6

But then, you know, but Jackie and Diana said, you know, we know a really great professor,

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