GENERAL · FUNCTIONAL AUTONOMY AND ADOLESCENT TRANSITION

Functional autonomy and transition to adolescence

Autonomía funcional y transición a la adolescencia

About this course

Expand meaningful participation for autistic adolescents with different support needs. Connect everyday skills with communication, choice, privacy, well-being, and coordinated transition planning.

Twelve bilingual modules cover ecological assessment, observable goals, task analysis and prompt fading, accessible communication, self-care and puberty, personal boundaries, household routines and money, community participation, digital safety, school transition, and caregiver training.

Apply your reasoning to the fictional cases of Mateo and Valeria. Nine downloadable tables and a descriptive performance graph support assessment, teaching, fidelity, and review. Learn to distinguish increased task performance from safety, generalization, and maintenance; these fictional applications do not establish causal effects or prescribe a universal clinical protocol.

What you will learn

  • Distinguish autonomy, choice, and supported performance in meaningful routines.
  • Assess skills, opportunities, and barriers through respectful ecological assessment.
  • Define observable goals and select individualized teaching and accessible communication.
  • Plan self-care, personal boundaries, and safe participation with privacy and consent.
  • Coordinate household, community, and school transition skills with the adolescent and team.
  • Interpret performance and caregiver fidelity, and plan generalization, maintenance, and continuity.

Course outline

  1. Autonomy and chosen priorities: 15 minutes
  2. Functional assessment in everyday contexts: 20 minutes
  3. Observable goals and relevant evidence: 20 minutes
  4. Teaching sequences and reducing prompts: 15 minutes
  5. Communication and self determination: 15 minutes
  6. Self care and puberty changes: 20 minutes
  7. Personal boundaries and relationships: 15 minutes
  8. Household routines money and organization: 15 minutes
  9. Community participation and digital safety: 20 minutes
  10. School coordination and transition planning: 15 minutes
  11. Regulation participation and caregiver training: 15 minutes
  12. Generalization maintenance and plan review: 15 minutes

Complete all twelve modules and their 24 knowledge checks, answer the four decisions across two integrated cases correctly, and pass the 10-question final assessment with at least eight correct answers (80%). All scored activities use multiple choice. Complete or decline the ungraded evaluation and confirm your name and BACB number to generate your certificate. Completing both languages does not earn additional CEUs.

For professionals with prior behavior-analytic training. This course develops assessment and teaching decisions; it does not itself establish specialized clinical competence. Individual implementation requires relevant training, individualized assessment, consent, accessible communication, attention to participation and well-being, and coordination when needs exceed professional competence.

Planned learning time: 200 minutes of instruction and application, including integrated cases, plus approximately 20 minutes for the final assessment. These are planning estimates, not minimum screen-time requirements. No timers or time locks.

$25.00

Credit: 4 General Learning CEUs
Category: General · 0 Ethics · 0 Supervision
Instruction and application: 200 planned minutes
Final assessment: Approximately 20 minutes
Estimated total: 220 minutes
Format: Asynchronous online
Languages: English and Spanish
Audience: BCBAs and BCaBAs

Instructor and ACE Provider

Dalgis Salgado Pinal, BCBA
Individual ACE Provider IP-25-11390
Clinical Director · Bhavioral Corporation

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