Applying RFT in Early Childhood: Summer 2025

from $300.00

The Summer 2025 course runs from July 8 - Sept 16 with meetings on alternate Tuesdays from 11 am - 12 pm US Eastern. See below for all meeting dates.

Have you been dipping your toes in the RFT water, and are now ready to dive in? Perhaps you’ve taken some workshops, read a book or two, and tried out some protocols, but you’re looking for more guidance—or you just want the chance to ask all your geekiest most technical questions. If you aren’t sure how to integrate RFT with your existing programming (including programming based on Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior), particularly in early childhood (0-6), or you struggle to apply RFT to your programming in ways that go beyond following a set curriculum, this course is for you. Dr. Siri Ming has been there and done that—based on decades of clinical practice, her own research, and the growing literature base in applying RFT, in this course she presents a powerful, developmentally aligned framework for approaching programming from a truly functional perspective. Join her to thoroughly explore theoretical concepts related to RFT in early language intervention along with specific case-conceptualization tools, assessment and intervention protocols.

This course provides 12 BACB Learning CEUs. Please see below for more information on our learning objectives, or you may view/download a complete overview.

Please note: while a thorough overview of RFT will be provided, this is not a beginner’s introduction (see Siri’s other workshop, Introduction to RFT in EIBI for that); you will get the most out of this course if you already have some training and reading under your belt before starting.

Click here for our pricing guide We also have low-cost pay-what-you-can scholarships available. Priority will be given to those who primarily serve underserved, disadvantaged and minority populations, clinicians who are members of minority groups themselves, and to early career practitioners or students in developing countries. Please click here to apply.

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The Summer 2025 course runs from July 8 - Sept 16 with meetings on alternate Tuesdays from 11 am - 12 pm US Eastern. See below for all meeting dates.

Have you been dipping your toes in the RFT water, and are now ready to dive in? Perhaps you’ve taken some workshops, read a book or two, and tried out some protocols, but you’re looking for more guidance—or you just want the chance to ask all your geekiest most technical questions. If you aren’t sure how to integrate RFT with your existing programming (including programming based on Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior), particularly in early childhood (0-6), or you struggle to apply RFT to your programming in ways that go beyond following a set curriculum, this course is for you. Dr. Siri Ming has been there and done that—based on decades of clinical practice, her own research, and the growing literature base in applying RFT, in this course she presents a powerful, developmentally aligned framework for approaching programming from a truly functional perspective. Join her to thoroughly explore theoretical concepts related to RFT in early language intervention along with specific case-conceptualization tools, assessment and intervention protocols.

This course provides 12 BACB Learning CEUs. Please see below for more information on our learning objectives, or you may view/download a complete overview.

Please note: while a thorough overview of RFT will be provided, this is not a beginner’s introduction (see Siri’s other workshop, Introduction to RFT in EIBI for that); you will get the most out of this course if you already have some training and reading under your belt before starting.

Click here for our pricing guide We also have low-cost pay-what-you-can scholarships available. Priority will be given to those who primarily serve underserved, disadvantaged and minority populations, clinicians who are members of minority groups themselves, and to early career practitioners or students in developing countries. Please click here to apply.

Overview

Meeting Dates:

Introduction: July 8 11 - 11:30 am US Eastern

Module One—Getting Oriented: Case Conceptualization in EIBI: July 22 11 am - 12 pm US Eastern

Module Two—Early Learners: Foundations and assessing for early DRR: Aug 5 11 am - 12 pm US Easte

Module Three—Same/Different: An exemplar of curricular sequencing: August 19 11 am - 12 pm US Easte

Module Four—Early Relations: Comparison, opposite, spatial & temporal relations: Sept 2 11 am - 12 pm US Easte

Module Five—Increasing Complexity: Deictics, analogy/metaphor, and rules: Sept 16 11 am - 12 pm US Easte

Objectives

Experiential Objectives

1. Assess relational responding repertoires with respect to (a) coordination (equivalence), (b) difference, (c) comparison, (d) opposite, (e) spatial, (f) temporal relations, and (g) deictics.
2. Include an analysis of relational responding repertoires as well as other generative processes and potential deficits when (a) presenting and (b) giving feedback on cases.
3. Develop or refine a case conceptualization/case review process for your practice that (a) integrates RFT and (b) integrates a consideration of psychological flexibility.

Technical/Educational Objectives

1. Define and describe the function/purpose of case conceptualization within ABA.
2. Define and give examples of generative processes including stimulus generalization, response induction, recombinative generalization, exclusion, observational learning, and relational framing.
3. Define and give examples of the properties of relational framing with respect to (a) coordination (equivalence), (b) difference, (c) comparison, (d) opposite, (e) spatial, (f) temporal relations, and (g) deictics.
4. Define and give examples of analogy and metaphor as relations between relations.
5. Define and give examples of rule-governed behavior.
6. Define and describe the dimensions of relational framing and their relation to psychological flexibility.