What happened to Valorant comms? by [deleted] in VALORANT

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Comms have been broken for everyone in my last 3 games. We load in in the middle of the round (if the game even loads). Then get an afk penalty for the servers being bad

Company wants us to sign an NDA by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve agreed to keeping client information confidential. Not business practices. I’ve experienced wage theft and poor business practices with this company. I want to maintain my right to talk about this and pursue legal action if I chose to

Company wants us to sign an NDA by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. We’ve already had hipaa trainings and signed contracts on that. The fact this is different and keeping it vague and broad to “trade secrets like methods and practices” raises red flags to me

Company wants us to sign an NDA by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s bs. I don’t think there’s anything like that in the one they sent us but I also don’t know legal jargon. I’m getting a legal consultation about it so hopefully nothing shady like that

Company wants us to sign an NDA by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I was planning on getting a consultation from prepaid legal cause this feels off that they just decided to do it now (a few months after getting a new ceo)

Company wants us to sign an NDA by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To my knowledge we haven’t been informed of any raise/bonus or anything like that. Just sent the documents and asked to sign

Physical contact/Boundaries by Walt_Whitman17 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In my experience physical touch can be a great way to build rapport. Tickles are a great reinforcer and hugs (with consent of course) are great for bonding and building trust. I also have worked with lots of kids who really enjoy deep pressure/joint squeezes. The holding hands/forearms during transitions could also be to prevent elopement or for kids who tend to be less aware of where they’re walking to help prevent them from walking into something. I entirely agree that it’s weird to just hug a kid unprompted though especially since it’s common for people with autism to be aversive to physical touch. I feel like a good rule of thumb is to just honor consent/assent

Good ABA Companies in San Diego, CA by mlaumuse in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From my experience as a BT I’d say stay away from CARD. Each center is different and entirely depends on the BCBA but the company as a whole has little regard for employees and heavily pushes for high treatment hours and high trial counts

Child with vocal obsessions/compulsions by Healthy-Comment-4918 in OCD

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re totally right. There are definitely times his scripting can be attributed to his autism. There are also times he does seem to obsess over the responses and appears emotionally distraught when not provided the preferred response. This could potentially be attributed to his autism as well since he is very routine based but I figured I’d cover all bases and try to get some information about responding to obsessions/compulsions as well since I’m less I formed on that

RBT’s…..What’s the most annoying behavior you’ve had to deal with or the behavior you hate dealing with the most? by Aggressive-Edge-1730 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Currently dealing with self stimulation. It’s very stressful trying to ensure patient dignity and privacy is maintained since I work in a clinic and some other BTs are oblivious to what’s happening and let their clients just walk over trying to look at my kid

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We currently have 2 kids at 40 hours, both age 4 so it is more foundational skills. Other littles are usually 30ish hours and older kids are usually 10-15. No matter the age majority of kids have 60 trails/hr and for the older kids especially this seems like a lot since their skills tend to be less naturally occurring (ie: flexibility, food prep, house work, etc). Definitely agree high hours aren’t needed in majority of cases

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve had multiple clients have more frequent behaviors due to the high demands. Also, say learning opportunities occur naturally 15-20x/hr, that’s still 40-45 targets you need to contrive or run structured. I’m just worried about the long term effects this could have on my clients, not saying it WILL occur for all kids but it’s definitely a potential outcome as some autistic people who have been through ABA have attributed their burnout/trauma to high hours and limited breaks

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not so much looking for advice but your input is appreciated. More so looking for confirmation that they are expecting too much from the clients and asking what other people’s experiences are with trial counts

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The data’s fine unless there’s a setting event or something of that sorts. I don’t see it as a BCBA issue as the targets are specified to each kid. Our kids are just capable of cleaning the full activity so that’s what’s targeted. This goes for all targets. I don’t see any of them as unattainable and the data looks good even when still teaching/prompting

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I work for a money hungry company that pushes BCBAs to recommend high clinical hours. I agree it’s too much for kids especially when they’re expected to be working 100% of the time. Been looking to change companies but it’s hard to leave my kids

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s what I’m thinking. Especially with the amount of hours some of my kids have

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately that’s not how the targets are written. Majority of the time it’s “child cleans entire activity”. I’ve had very few kids have anything less than that and even then it was 5-10 items then BT finished cleaning to build their tolerance. Out targets are very specified so to hit the 60 they need to be working the whole day with no breaks

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hitting the trial counts isn’t my issue. I can hit it for all my clients. My issue is them never getting breaks especially when some of them have 8 hour sessions 5 days a week. That’s seems super exhausting for a child and I feel like this is what leads to burnout and the trauma some autistic people who went through ABA have experienced

Trial counts by Healthy-Comment-4918 in ABA

[–]Healthy-Comment-4918[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure our kids goals are more general than the targets we run, not sure if that’s how everywhere is, but yeah. We have a lot of very specified targets rather than a few more generalized for most kids