Hello, and welcome to the Open CEU Community! My name is Matt Harrington. I have been a BCBA for 6 years, and have given out over 10k CEU certificates through the Behaviorist Bookclub. This community originally started as the ABA Clubhouse, and we have been doing weekly free CEU events since the beginning of the year. In July 2026, our new software, openceu.com launched! OpenCEU is a CEU hosting platform that aims to reduce the response effort (and cost) of publishing CEUs. More on that in one of the pinned posts! A little about me! ✅ RBT -> BCaBA -> BCBA -> Clinic Director -> ABA Marketing ✅ 3 kids (2, 4, and 6) + Married 7 years ✅ Values are family protection and creation/production A little about the community 🦄 Free weekly CEUs 🦄 Community chat regarding things BCBAs ACTUALLY care about 🦄 Sharing CEU events encouraged! What to do next 🧚‍♀️ Browse the classroom (or go straight to openceu.com) and watch some CEUs 🧚‍♀️ If you are an ABA Complany director/owner, check out the pinned post to learn about the ABA Back Office or go to https://www.skool.com/the-aba-back-office 🧚‍♀️ If you are an ACE Provider, check out the pinned post to learn about how you can host CEUs at no cost at OpenCEU.com BTW, you may notice that this community is free, but you can also subscribe for $5 or $25. Let me explain. OpenCEU was built on open access, meaning I charge nothing for ACE providers to host on the platform and take 0% platform fees. BUT… As OpenCEU gets more popular, the cost to maintain the software has increased as well. So the $5-$25/month is a small donation to help me keep the platform open access and encourage the dissemination of future research. So, if you would like, every subscription goes directly into keeping this mission alive!

Empowering Autonomy and Self-Management in ADHD Learners by Nicole Stewart, BCBA Here is the link-> https://openceu.com/live/ca044005-6fb2-4d35-a395-26b701ac17fc

Shaping Behavior Change when ADHD is in the Picture Starting now, 1:30 EST, by Nicole Stewart! https://openceu.com/live/237ce3a4-6b01-4a68-9269-df0425589ec9

Join now for "From Hours to Competence: Assessing and Developing Supervisee Skills!" Starting at 12 PM EST! https://openceu.com/live/7f6f12cd-4a4a-489e-8a43-d144a1ac3d2d

Journal review, extinction shaping, and why big box ABA is struggling - I read a study on masked visual analysis (MVA) versus traditional visual analysis in multiple baseline designs. Two methods only agreed with each other on 75% of graphs, so I dug into why. - My take: MVA exists because statistical analysis used to be too hard for clinicians to run. That barrier is mostly gone now. In five years I think insurances will want numbers, not graphs. - A student asked how to operationally define a kid shutting down. I said look at what they are not responding to and whether it causes harm. If it does not cause harm, define the actual behavior you want instead, like getting up from a task. - On tolerance building, I walked through shaping with extinction on small chunks of time. The key question is what you do after a kid taps out. You back off a couple seconds, get a few wins, then push forward again instead of jumping straight back to the old target. - On automatically maintained behavior, I explained how I treated spitting with competing stimuli and an enriched environment, then faded access with a multiple schedule. I gave a test for telling competing stimuli from a true functional match: does the original behavior come right back once the item is removed. - Someone asked if we should require student analysts to take a counseling course. I do not think the BACB adds much more coursework soon since it would slow down how many BCBAs get certified, and there is already huge demand for BCBAs. - A BCBA vented about non-BCBAs telling BCBAs how to do their job at big companies. I broke down why ABA businesses are splitting into three types right now: BCBA owned shops losing ground to competition, private equity groups with money but shaky clinical quality, and investor backed groups trying to hold both together. - My honest opinion is the businesses winning right now are run by a clinician or clinician adjacent operator who reinvests in clinical quality first and treats happy clients as the real marketing engine.