RFT, VB & EIBI, Oh my!

A engaging glimpse into RFT and its applications in early intervention, with Dr. Siri Ming

In this on-demand webinar, Dr. Siri Ming shares insights from over 15 years of research and practice, offering a fresh look at how integrating RFT and Skinnerian Verbal Behavior can enrich your EIBI programs. Perfect as a standalone introduction or a companion to her handbook series and recent article in The Psychological Record.

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Meet your instructor

Siri Ming, Ph.D., BCBA (she/her)

Siri is a leader in the field and our resident expert on applying Relational Frame Theory (RFT) to early intervention—and a trusted guide for behavior analysts seeking to bring clarity, purpose, and compassion to their practice. A peer-reviewed ACT trainer, behavior analyst, coach, and educator, Siri grounds her training in over 30 years of experience in the field in roles ranging from direct intervention and family consultation to quality assurance.

She is the co-author of Understanding and Applying RFT and the Using RFT to Promote Generative Language handbook series, as well as numerous peer-reviewed publications on RFT and early language intervention. But more importantly, she’s spent over 15 years doing RFT-based work on the ground—collaborating with caregivers and professional teams to develop assessment and teaching plans, solve problems, and apply principles in real-world early childhood settings.

Known for making complex ideas practical, Siri has been teaching and mentoring behavior analysts around the world throughout her career, emphasizing humility, collaboration, and socially meaningful outcomes. In addition to her courses with Constellations, she co-facilitates our practitioner lab and provides coaching and consultation for professionals and teams working in early language development.

Her work is grounded in values of rigor, generosity, and kindness—and a commitment to supporting professionals who are ready to go deeper in their practice.

Learn more about Siri’s work at www.siriming.com.

About the Course

What happens when you bring Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Skinner’s Verbal Behavior (VB) into meaningful dialogue within early intervention programs? You get something far more powerful than either alone.

In this engaging on-demand webinar, Dr. Siri Ming—peer-reviewed ACT trainer, behavior analyst, and co-author of Understanding and Applying RFT—invites you into the rich, practical space between RFT and VB. With over 15 years of experience applying both approaches in real-world settings, Siri shares lessons learned from her research and clinical work, offering both inspiration and actionable strategies.

Designed as a companion to her article in The Psychological Record, her Using RFT to Promote Generative Language handbook series, as a primer before a deeper dive into her on-demand courses, or simply as an introduction to applying RFT in early intervention programming, this short-format webinar delivers five concise video lessons that:

  • Introduce key RFT concepts and terms

  • Illustrate how these processes contribute to generative language development

  • Demonstrate how RFT and Skinnerian VB can be integrated in EIBI programs for more flexible, meaningful communication

  • Offer concrete tools and examples from Siri’s own practice

  • Provide curated resources to support your ongoing learning

Whether you’re new to RFT or looking to learn more about its relevance to ABA programming, this webinar will deepen your understanding and energize your practice.

What participants say…

  • Absolutely recommend for all clinicians!! Please do not be turned off because the talk is about RFT. Siri provides fantastic easy digestible, practical application information and videos of procedures that will enhance your practice. If you have an understanding of RFT and use PEAK, you definitely also need to do this course. It provides you with some elements that are missing from PEAK (emphasis on pre-requisite skills , skills to be able to individualise instructional design for learners etc).

What to expect

In this brief, 5 part webinar, you'll get a user-friendly intro to RFT, why Siri thinks RFT is important to early intervention, how to use the strengths of both RFT and VB in language intervention programming, and she'll share stories and lessons she’s learned along the way in her research and practice.

There are 5 short video lessons, totalling 85 minutes of content (1.5 BACB Learning CEUs). Siri is available to provide support through threaded lesson discussions, to answer any questions you might have along the way!

  • Part 1: Why RFT?

  • Part 2: RFT and VB

  • Part 3: Early Repertoires

  • Part 4: Going Beyond Equivalence

  • Part 5: Increasing Complexity

Learning Objectives

  1. Describe the strengths of both VB and RFT with respect to early intervention

  2. Describe the importance of both derivation and transformation of function to generative language

  3. Describe the importance of contextual cues for relations when teaching relational responding