Setting up a session appropriately in ABA is critical for ensuring consistency, structure, and clarity for both the client and the interventionist. A well-prepared session reduces downtime, minimizes problem behaviors, and maximizes learning opportunities by ensuring that materials, data systems, and the environment are ready. It also signals to the client that expectations are clear and routines are predictable, which promotes engagement and skill acquisition.

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) uses evidence-based teaching strategies to systematically improve socially significant behaviors. Common techniques include prompting, reinforcement, shaping, task analysis, and error correction, each designed to help learners acquire and maintain new skills. These strategies are tailored to the individual and applied consistently to maximize learning opportunities and generalization across environments.

Be clear, be confident, and don’t overthink it.

The seven dimensions of ABA provide a framework to ensure interventions are effective, ethical, and individualized. These dimensions include:

1. Applied – ABA targets socially significant behaviors that are meaningful to the individual and their environment.

2. Behavioral – Interventions focus on observable and measurable behaviors to ensure clear tracking of progress.

3. Analytic – Decisions are driven by data, demonstrating a clear relationship between interventions and behavior change.

4. Technological – Procedures are written clearly and in detail, allowing others to replicate them accurately.

5. Conceptually Systematic – Strategies are based on established principles of behavior analysis, maintaining scientific integrity.

6. Effective – Interventions produce meaningful improvements in behavior.

7. Generality – Behavior changes are sustained over time, across different environments and people.