The KU Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) Training Course follows the BACB-approved, 3rd Edition, 40-hour training curriculum, developed and led by a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst from the University of Kansas Department of Applied Behavioral Science.

This self-paced course covers all core content areas required for RBT certification, with a focus on applied behavior analysis (ABA) principles, professional ethics, behavior reduction, and skill acquisition techniques.

Course Units Overview (follows the BACB's 3rd edition requirements)

Unit 1: Course Overview, Expectations, and Information About Credentials

• Features and purpose of applied behavior analysis service delivery
• Levels of BACB Certification
• Role of RBT in behavior analytic service delivery
• Requirements for RBT Certification
• Components of the Course

Unit 2: Ethics, Professional Conduct and Scope of Practice

• Historical context for ethical guidelines
• Core principles of BACB's ethics code
• RBT Ethics Code (2.0) and client protection and supervisor
• Professional behavior in service delivery
• Responding ethically to potential scenarios

Unit 3: Behavior and Environment

• Behavior and contingency
• Elementary verbal operants
• The three-term contingency

Unit 4: Observation, Measurement, and Graphing of Behavior

• Continuous and Discontinuous Measures
• Types of data collection
• Reliability
• Data displays
• Graphing behavioral data
• Phases of behavior-analytic intervention

Unit 5: Reinforcement

• Reinforcers and positive and negative reinforcement
• Basic schedules of reinforcement
• Shaping

Unit 6: Preference Assessment

• Preference
• Stimulus preference assessments

Unit 7: Fundamentals of Behavior Acquisition

• Behavioral repertoires
• Types of assessments
• Skill acquisition plans
• Prepare for service delivery

Unit 8: Prompts and Prompt Fading

• Types of prompts
• Prompt hierarchies
• Prompt fading

Unit 9: Discrete-Trial Teaching Procedures

• Discrete Trial Teaching
• Components of Discrete Trial Teaching: instruction, prompt, response, and reinforcer

Unit 10: Task Analysis and Chaining

• Behavior Chains and Task Analysis
• Forward Chaining, Backward Chaining, and Total Task Presentation

Unit 11: Discrimination Training

• Stimulus Control, Discriminative Stimulus, and Stimulus Delta
• Discrimination Training

Unit 12: Generalization and Maintenance

• Response Generalization and Stimulus Generalization
• Promoting Generalization
• Maintenance

Unit 13: Naturalistic Teaching Procedures

• Naturalistic Teaching Approaches
• Activity-based Instruction Methods
• Incidental Teaching Methods

Unit 14: Functions and Functional Assessment

• Why a behavior may be undesirable
• Functional assessment procedures
• Common social functions of behavior
• Automatic reinforcement
• ABC Data Collection

Unit 15: Behavior Reduction

• Healthy Contingencies
• Behavior Support Plans
• Antecedent Interventions
• Differential Reinforcement
• Extinction
• Punishment

Unit 16: Crisis Management

• Restrictive Procedures
• Behavioral Crises

Unit 17: Next Steps to Certification and Beyond

• Obtaining RBT Certification
• Maintaining RBT Certification
• Certification status
• Supervision requirements and documentation for RBTs
• Ethics requirements
• Self-reporting
• Recertification requirements