Requirements

**CEP 845: Autism Spectrum Disorders: Assessment and Intervention

This course examines assessment and intervention for students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Course participants will become knowledgeable and highly skilled practitioners who understand assessments (formal and informal) and can subsequently recommend and implement the most appropriate interventions to meet the needs of their students.

**CEP 851: Concepts and Principles of Behavior Analysis

This course provides the opportunity to learn, explore and apply the fundamental elements, concepts and principles in applied behavior analysis (ABA)—the scientific application of learning principles to solve a wide range of socially significant issues facing humans. Students will become versed in the development of this science and be guided to think critically about the tenets of ABA, developing a graduate-level understanding and appreciation of the science of behavior including basic principles, concepts, techniques, interventions, research, ethical considerations and applications of ABA.

CEP 852: Experimental Analysis of Behavior

This course provides graduate students with in-depth knowledge in basic behavioral processes, presenting information relating to human and non-human learning with a focus on the experimental analysis of behavior. Computer-based simulations of laboratory experiments provide opportunities for students to apply acquired skills in areas including (but not limited to): respondent conditioning, operant conditioning, establishing operations conditioned reinforcement, rule-governed behavior, behavioral pharmacology, remembering/forgetting.

CEP 853: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Change

This course examines multiple approaches to functional behavior assessment and intervention, emphasizing application to students with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities. Participants will be provided the skills necessary to complete a thorough functional behavior assessment, develop a function-based behavioral intervention plan and implement the behavior plan with a student diagnosed with ASD or other disabilities.

**CEP 854: Ethics in Behavior Analysis

This course focuses on professional, legal and ethical guidelines for the applied behavior analyst, preparing students to be ethical providers of behavior analytic services. Content for this course is required by the Behavior Analyst Certification Board for a university-approved course sequence in the preparation of Board Certified Behavior Analysts, and will include, but is not limited to: informed consent, protection of confidentiality, selection of least intrusive and restrictive behavior change procedures, ethical decision making and legal issues.

**CEP 855: Verbal Behavior in Education

This course examines educational procedures for teaching language and literacy using Skinner’s (1957) conceptual analysis of verbal behavior as a foundation. Participants will learn the terminology associated with a behavioral explanation of language development, understand the historical controversy surrounding Skinner’s conceptualization and learn to administer educational procedures rooted in a verbal behavioral approach.

CEP 942: Single-case Experimental Design for Educational Research

This course will prepare participants to carry out intervention-based research and identify evidence-based practices in educational settings utilizing single-case experimental designs. Participants will carry out research projects directly relevant to roles as intervention researchers or practitioners (e.g., behavior analysts, special educators, school psychologists) working with individuals with disabilities in a variety of settings.