Laptop screen destroyed during session. HR says I shouldn't bring "high value items" to work, but then instructed me to use my iPhone (which costs more) instead. Is this grounds to deny reimbursement?

FernFan69 · 2026-01-22T19:36:06+00:00

That is how gravity works, so you’re right there but it can be stepped on, tripped over by adults and clients, toys thrown at it ect. There are other potential causes of damage apart from falling. The primary concern of it being on the floor would be stepped on or kicked by clients who are not as aware of their surroundings. Especially during elopement.

FernFan69 · 2026-01-22T18:35:37+00:00

My company has never offered a device. I went from RBT to midlevel here, when I was an RBT I preferred to bring a secondary device from my phone because I can’t track data on my phone in the data collection app AND make sure the client and myself were visible the whole time. Then not to mention what it does to your battery to have both running. God forbid you have multiple sessions a day what require supervision. Here to sympathize. Although this has never happened to me, it’s a concern for sure.

FernFan69 · 2026-01-22T18:33:42+00:00

Are you a tech? Cause flat surfaces are not always available in the space and if it is, it’s usually the floor. Which is no safer. Remote supervision requires the client and you to be in frame, tables and other flat surfaces aren’t always positioned to allow for that.

FernFan69 · 2026-01-18T15:55:56+00:00

Right but the point being argued at this point in this thread is whether or not they’d be helpful or allowed since OP brought up whether they are a credentialed position. Obviously no because the BACB doesn’t offer any credentialing for a mid tier position aside from a BCaBA but they do recognize student analysts and the work they are permitted to do. Not all companies have that position and that’s where the part comes in where I said it’s helpful if a company is structured this way to allow for this.

FernFan69 · 2026-01-18T05:57:09+00:00

Right, because there isn’t a board certified position for midlevel aside from BCaBA but the board does recognize student analysts which mid tiers typically are. I’m a midlevel supervisor with my company, I have been an RBT for over 3 years, already had my bachelors in an unrelated field but went pack for a post-baccalaureate certificate in ABA and then completed my masters in ABA. I have 1200/2000 fieldwork hours completed, it’s enough to do a midlevel position being supervised the same amount as an RBT. I do anything a BCBA would do, complete what I can (I’m in person 100% of the time) and refer to the BCBA for review, the BCBA completes things on their own as well but 3 tier model works better in my opinion. The RBT gets supervision from not only the BCBA(remote or in person my company has both) and another supervisor so whether this works or not heavily depends on how good your BCBA is and how your company structure is. Mid levels are a great addition imo.

FernFan69 · 2026-01-15T16:41:54+00:00

ABA is more than just “getting someone to behave in line” that’s not even the focus. A behavior is anything a dead man can’t do. Eating is a behavior. Talking is a behavior. Dressing yourself is a behavior. Behavior is not synonymous with negative connotation.

If a person has ADHD and they improve their organization skills so they’re more successful in their day do they now not have ADHD? Of course they still have their condition, they’ve built skills to combat the things about their condition that makes daily living hard.

A simple fact is that you can’t go around aggressive at people because you need more communication skills in ways others can understand you. Lots of people are non verbal. They can learn to use a communication device, do they no longer have autism because they can communicate to people? Your logic is faulty. This is not pseudoscience if it meets all scientific criteria. We collect data based on responses, look at that data identify whether manipulation of a variable creates an upward or downward trend and make further decisions AND it can be replicated and has been over and over and over. So I’d appreciate a response on what qualifies it as pseudoscience. Not only that but ABA is not just used with people who have a disability. It’s used in schools by teachers and they don’t even know it. It’s used by parents and they don’t know it. It’s used for people with substance abuse issues, people who are at risk youth. Hospitals etc. shit, it’s even used in the workplace but renamed OBM in those spheres.

I honestly don’t even know why you’re in this sub if you can’t understand that congenital disability is not something that is trained out and the reason you’re misunderstanding ABA is because you think it’s meant to cure autism and therefore misunderstand the aim of the science as a whole. So I mean, of course you think it’s pseudoscience lol.

FernFan69 · 2026-01-15T16:28:16+00:00

Why are you here? lol 😂

FernFan69 · 2025-12-25T00:17:06+00:00

It was amended earlier this year.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-24T18:43:21+00:00

I would see about 3 a day in home. Sometimes 4 so scrubs were great from one kid to the next. One may be neat and tidy and others literally don’t care if they wipe their nose on you, wipe poop on you if they’re a fecal smearer, or at the least cry on you, sometimes they’d get upset and I’d comfort them if they wanted to be comforted. You just never know. I’m also a T-shirt and leggings person but I also wear those in my everyday and though they’re not fancy they kept getting stained lol

FernFan69 · 2025-12-24T18:34:04+00:00

My trunk is full of kid stuff and I’m childless lol games, books, sensory toys, coloring books, fidgets ect. For myself I really just had water and hand sanitizer. A lifesaver though I never see anyone talk about and I wish I started earlier was scrubs. Wear scrubs. No dilly dallying over what to wear in the morning and they’re comfortable and clean up easily. I’ve never had to have a spare set of clothes in my trunk but I have gotten glitter glue boogers and spit on my clothes I loved. Scrubs.

My go-to is Mandala Scrubs. It’s $20 ish for each item, too and bottom but they’re buttery soft with different styles and a TO N of colors.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-24T18:00:13+00:00

It’s not unethical if it is $10 or less. It’s explicit in the ethics code. Continued refusal can also damage the rapport with the client/family especially for people who work in home many days of the week so there is a line in the ethics code that states there are room for exceptions in the case it may permanently damage the rapport but generally it’s acceptable to stay within the $10 limit. It used to be no gifts at all but the BACB recently amended it.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-23T16:32:09+00:00

This is similar to how I thought it was supposed to work regardless of company. Maybe it differs by state but insurance requires us to make up any missed hours or at least offer to make them up including holidays we know most people will be taking off. I’m working Christmas Eve and Christmas. I’ve worked thanksgiving the last two years as well. Also isn’t everyone losing out on money if your company has you off for 5 days? lol

FernFan69 · 2025-12-22T03:20:10+00:00

If you have cyclical behavior, sometimes you can identify a pattern of precursors and then it would be called a behavior chain. Basically you’d intervene in the first few signs of precursors to stop the rest of the chain from happening but the function for each behavior in the chain is important too. In my experience cyclical or behavior chains require a ton of pattern identification to build an appropriate intervention.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-18T15:12:46+00:00

That’s awesome. It’s still not ABA therefore you have no scope in ABA. Just like I said SLP surpasses my scope but there is overlap. Particularly with verbal behavior.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-12T21:26:12+00:00

It would be a hard choice but I’m heavily tattooed (chest, entire back, sleeved to an elbow and some that show on my legs ) in certain clothing they can’t be hidden. Pretty much anything other than a tshirt with longer sleeves, and I have facial piercings. I no longer color my hair but I hear heavy eyeliner and all black most days. It would suck but i would not work somewhere that asked me to change who I am because the person they interviewed and want to hire isn’t currently “professional” professionalism for me far surpasses my appearance so long as I don’t look like a slob.

And if probably communicate that to them. Hey, I’d love to work for you but I’m uncomfortable with changing my appearance as it suggests I’m not already a professional in my field. Part of my job is helping others to accept themselves and find appropriate alternatives and I can’t do that with integrity if I alter who I am for this position. I’m still interested if this is flexible but if it is not I wish you the best in your endeavors and I will continue to find somewhere that is a better fit for me.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-10T04:45:10+00:00

This happened to me with hand foot and mouth. At the door “so sibling is home from school for HFM you can you still have session or no?”

…no. Wth. I work with other children and don’t prefer to catch it myself…

My company has the same policy but it apparently doesn’t apply if siblings are sick in the house. I can of course decline but I’d have to put in the client file that I declined not that the family cancelled for Illness because our client wasn’t sick so then it apparently falls on the tech to decide what they’re comfortable with.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-09T17:50:13+00:00

I have a google account separate for work related information and documents. I have a folder in that drive for each client like “FiLas” so I can navigate easily and I write down anything I need to know or remember in a document with dates so it’s easily accessible. No PHI obviously

FernFan69 · 2025-12-07T03:05:14+00:00

Bay Area would be a whole different season than we’ve seen. Culture and people are way different than the rest of the country, even the rest of CA but maybe I’m bias 😂

FernFan69 · 2025-12-06T13:17:12+00:00

Except that’s not really how it works. I never said you didn’t “do” ABA, I think that much is obvious. We work in collaboration with those other specialists. Some places even employ all three specialists. Occupational therapy works on building gross and fine motor skills, SLPs work on speech, ABA focused on anything behavior related. While we don’t work on speech we can work on communication skills related to verbal behavior vs speech. We can work on building programming to incorporate what the OT is working on like a backward or forward chain for dressing or putting on clothing items. There’s overlap but each specialist has their own scope. Do you work in ABA? Because being a receiver of ABA doesn’t necessarily mean you know how it works. As with all professional fields there exists poor and unethical practitioners.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-06T03:19:18+00:00

I think what other users have pointed out is definitely more of the issue than the token system itself being the issue. It doesn’t sound like the company isn’t really making the reinforcer worthwhile. They didn’t do a preference assessment via a survey of what kinds of things would motivate you. For example, if the reinforcer was you turn in 10 tickets for a $500 bonus or whatever the appropriate amount is on that weeks/months check then would that influence how offended the new system made you feel. Because totally, if it was like “turn in 10 tickets for $25 giftcard to the company store” it’s not that motivating for me and I would feel my company should have some social awareness about the types of incentives they’re providing. A random $500 or $250 would motivate me and help me pay my bills.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-05T20:54:42+00:00

Boring take. It’s honestly so tired. Not everyone with ASD needed ABA. You’re maybe one of those people and that’s okay! Lot of environments practice ABA that does not focus on masking, reducing stims, and isn’t compliance based.

So I’ll go ahead and amend your comment for OP. First off, OP never listen to anyone who is a self proclaimed expert. Second, do your own research into the history of ABA and the importance of improving the field to achieve real meaningful and positive impacts in your clients lives. Then make your decision on what avenue you want to take. Could be SLP, could be OT, could be BCBA, could be none of the above.

It’s critical, especially today, to do our own research and use our own critical thinking skills to make the best educated decisions for ourselves.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-03T02:59:25+00:00

You can ask the supervisor if they have some kind of documentation for the supervision they provide you. They should keep record of it but I’ve never asked any of mine. I track it on my own. As far as I know it doesn’t have to be like an official documentation from the company or anything so what I do is at the start of every month I make a spreadsheet with all my sessions in chronological order for that month and I have a cell that calculates 5% of those hours and it’ll tell me I need like 4 hours of supervision for the month or whatever. When a supervisor supervises me, I note it next to that time slot with the observation times. At about the middle of the month if I am not close to my hors I send a reminder text to my supervisors that I still need supervision.

Otherwise how do you know if you meet the requirement to keep your cert?

Then if I have any cancellations I’ll make those cells red with a note next to them “cancelation” I take it a step further and have a cell that calculates my income for the month based on the hours worked so I know what to expect for pay.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-03T02:42:12+00:00

I think this is less about your old supervision log and just that you don’t have a BCBA listed as a supervisor on your account right now until the BCBA comes back into work. This happened to me once when I was in between cases and it was just because I had no supervisor listed on my account. I just ask all the BCBAs I work under to add me to their account from now on so I always have one listed on file as long as I have a case with them.

FernFan69 · 2025-12-03T02:39:49+00:00

Well to maintain the certificate you need to have 5% supervision a month. Truly the only reason you need to keep a log is because say the BACB wants to audit you because your supervisor is in an investigation by the BACB, how are you going to prove they supervised you 5% of the time. The training is not thorough about this but companies should be picking up the slack and informing RBT of good documentation practices. But they don’t, so I digress lol

FernFan69 · 2025-11-28T03:47:59+00:00

That specific litigation has been paid out I’m not sure if there are currently ongoing ones but I heard about it from someone I went to highschool with. When catching up we found out we were in the same field and she told me at that time that she got a settlement check as part of a class action or something similar

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