Ep20 Reaching the Remote- Rural Communities and ABA with Dr. Brittany Hott

From political science to juvenile justice to working with rural schools and teaching graduate and doctoral students, Dr. Brittany Hott has explored a vast galaxy. In this adventure, she describes how she utilizes the many layers of behavior analysis to work with rural communities to improve the lives and families of students. She presents a beautiful description of how systems and communities can be improved through building relationships, teaching, mentoring, and maintaining the mantra of progress over perfection.

She also discusses Project SPIDERS, a collaborative project across three universities- University of Oklahoma, University of Louisville, and University of North Florida. Project SPIDERS stands for: School-University Partnership Influencing aDvocacy and Engaging Rural School educators. This scholarship is for a doctoral program for students dedicated to special education and are interested in becoming an educational leader.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how to shape desirable behaviors utilizing the individual’s strengths.

2. Tact how various “small variables” can impact a learner’s day and subsequent learning and how BCBAs can work with schools to make small changes.

3. Discuss how different learners will require different accommodations and how that impacts other stakeholders in the system in regards to risk-benefit analysis.

Take-Aways your bite-sized educational noms:

- Consider the child who gets up early in the morning to perform chores and work on a ranch. While we may see the early wake up as detrimental, there are many behaviors and skills learned during these activities that can benefit and strengthen the learner in other areas such as following a schedule and task list to completion. Look to the learner’s strengths for guidance.

- Instead of blaming or judging the behaviors, we should look at a variety of contingencies that impact our learners. Are they hungry and cranky when they come to school? Make sure they get breakfast/snack and some calm down time. The learner and the environment need to both be prepped and ready if learning is to occur.

- Some of our learners will need certain accommodations while others will need different supports. It is important to consider each learner’s (whether it’s a teacher, student, or administrator) individual strengths, skills, and variables if we’re going to strive for progress over perfection.

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