Behavior Technician

DISCLOSURE : You must be located in or near Washtenaw County (within a 30 mile radius) for your application to be considered.

ABA Insight is hiring individuals to provide ABA therapy services, as Behavior Technicians, that are center-based and in the community. This is an hourly position starting at $19 per hour. Hours of operation are Mon-Fri, 8-4p. We request that you can work a minimum of 12 hours. ABA Insight's Center is located at 304 Harriet St, Ypsilanti MI 48197. Please see our web site at www.abainsight.net for details about our mission, values, and services.

Primary Job Function : To work in a fast-paced and often intense learning environment with children, adolescents, and teens diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

A Behavior Technician provides direct one-on-one behavioral interventions to individuals with autism to teach communication, social skills, and reduce problematic behaviors in the home, community, and school settings. Behavior Technicians will use interventions based in the science of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and are advised by a Licensed Behavior Analyst. No training in ABA? Do not worry - we will invest in training you. We often find that individuals that had no prior experience truly enjoy the work and go on to obtain advanced credentials in the field. This could be you!

Requirements

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :

• Establishes a therapeutic relationship with clients to promote optimal learning
• Follows a treatment plan utilizing sound judgment and seeks out appropriate consultation
• Prompts safe and socially acceptable replacement behaviors in order to build a repertoire of communication, social interaction, and problem solving skills
• Fades prompts appropriately to promote both successful and independent responding
• Increases the frequency or duration of safe and appropriate replacement behaviors by providing access to reinforcers (desired items / actions, attention, or removal of demands / aversive situations)
• Accurately collects behavior data including : A-B-C, count, frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, event, and interval based recording
• Collaborates with family and treatment team members to provide treatment effectively and without disruption to the environment or other individuals in the environment
• Educates members of the treatment team that are key caregivers for the individual being treated
• Performs tasks requested by the case supervisor within boundaries of the BT role when providing treatment
• Completes assessments during treatment to gather information and clinical findings to report to the case supervisor to communicate progress and changes
• Maintains a clean, safe, and organized work and therapy environment.

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Thank you for your interest in ABA Insight!