(REC) Event Based Learning: Because Context Matters

Our job as behavior analysts is to create meaningful change through teaching socially significant skills, but it can be difficult to capture motivation and promote generalization when skills are taught in isolation. Event based learning is a powerful way to create motivation and engagement through specific “events” or activities, like baking, gardening, or video games!

This presentation reviews the background and rationale for Event Based Learning, and provides specific steps that analysts can take to begin incorporating this strategy with their learners.

Learning Objectives:

• The participant will be able to describe the rationale for event based learning
• The participant will be able to define event based learning
• The participant will be able to identify the steps to implementing event based learning
• The participant will be able to plan an event for one client
• The participant will be able to provide 5 different examples of events

PRESENTER: AnnaMarie Stoudenmire

AnnaMarie Stoudenmire, MA, BCBA has been a Board Certified Behavior Analyst since 2016, and lives in upstate South Carolina working with teens and young adults with autism at Project Hope Foundation.