Welcome to Everyday ABA!

These modules are made for caregivers like you—parents, grandparents, or anyone helping a child who is getting ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) support.

You'll start with the Essentials course, where you'll learn the basics of ABA and how it works. After that, you will get access to all the other modules, and your clinician will ask you to complete modules based on your goals and progress. Each module is short (under 15 minutes) and includes practice activities you can try at home and questions to discuss with your team.

By the end, you'll feel more confident using ABA tools to help your child learn new skills, communicate more, and grow. You're doing something amazing—one small step at a time!

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Everyday ABA Modules

The Everyday ABA program begins with the Essentials Course—a core module that introduces foundational skills and strategies. Upon completion, your clinician will assign modules based on what's most helpful for you and your family at each stage of care. This personalized approach ensures you get the right tools, right when you need them.

  • Everyday ABA Essentials: Learn about Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) principles and how it can help your child grow.
  • Motivation: Learn how to use motivation to encourage your child’s positive behaviors and skill development.
  • Reinforcement: Explore ways to use reinforcement strategies to encourage positive behaviors.
  • Differential Reinforcement: Discover how to provide more attention or rewards for desired behaviors and less for challenging ones.
  • Token Economies: Use a simple token system to help your child stay motivated and practice positive behaviors.
  • Sensory Profile: Understand your child’s sensory needs and use simple strategies to help them feel calm, safe, and in control.
  • Providing Choices: Offer your child simple choices to reduce power struggles and build cooperation in daily routines.
  • Removing and Reintroducing Demands: Take a break from tasks and slowly add them to help your child follow directions.
  • Catching Your Child Being Good: Notice and and praise positive behaviors to help your child make good choices.
  • First-Then Sequence: Use simple “first-then” instructions to help your child complete tasks.
  • Task Modification: Discover simple ways to change tasks to better fit your child’s interests and needs.
  • Transition Warnings: Help your child move smoothly between activities by giving simple warnings before a change happens.
  • Visual Schedules: Use pictures, words, or calendars to help your child know what to expect throughout the day.
  • Escape Maintained: Figure out why your child avoids a task and practice strategies to help them complete it.
  • Attention Maintained: Help your child find positive ways to get attention and reduce challenging behaviors that are meant to get a reaction.
  • Automatic Maintained: Support your child in finding safe, positive ways to meet sensory needs.
  • Access Maintained: Learn how to teach your child better ways to ask for what they want.
  • Functional Communication Training: Address challenging behaviors by teaching your child simple ways to ask for what they want.
  • Guided Instruction: Practice a step-by-step way to guide your youth to follow directions.
  • High-Probability Skills: Start with easy requests your child will say “yes” to before asking for a harder task.
  • Imitation: Help your child build new skills by encouraging them to copy simple actions, sounds, or words.
  • Listening and Responding: Practice following instructions and name responding with your child, using simple steps.
  • Requesting: Support your child in learning to ask for what they want using words, signs, pictures, or devices.
  • Labelling: Help your child name the people, places, and things around them.
  • Conversation Skills: Help your child practice simple back-and-forth exchanges to build their conversation skills.
  • Naturalistic: Use real-life activities and everyday routines to teach your child new skills in fun, natural ways.
  • Formal Teaching: Teach new skills step-by-step in a structured setting.
  • Teaching Others: Share Everyday ABA strategies with family, friends, or caregivers using a simple four-step method.
  • Shaping: Guide your child toward a big goal by praising and rewarding small steps along the way.
  • Task Analysis: Break big tasks into small, simple steps to help your child complete activities more independently.
  • Story-Based Interventions: Create simple stories to help your child understand what to expect and how to act in everyday situations.
  • Prompting: Support your child to successfully learn a new skill, then gradually reduce support so they can do it on their own.

Program Content Developers and Instructors

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Brianna Fitchett, MPH, MA, BCBA
Developer

Degrees/Credentials

  • Masters Public Health: Healthcare Administration, National University
  • BCBA, Florida Institute of Technology
  • MA, Special Education, Moderate/Severe Disabilities, Notre Dame de Namur University
  • BA, San Francisco State University

Disclosures: None.

Current Position

  • Vice President of Clinical Impact - Catalight
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Doreen Samelson, Ed.D., MSCP.
Developer

Degrees/Credentials

  • Licensed Psychologist
  • MSCP, Alliant International University
  • Ed.D., Counseling Psychology, University of the Pacific
  • 30 Credit Hours in Special Education and Psychology Credited Toward a Teaching Certificate in Severely Handicapped Education, Western Oregon State College
  • MA, Major in Psychology, Minor in Ecology and Behavioral Biology, The University of Minnesota
  • BA, Major in Psychology with a Minor in Biology, San Francisco State

Disclosures: None.

Current Position

  • Chief Clinical Officer - Catalight
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Jennifer Ikola, BCBA
Instructor

Credentials

  • MS, Psychology with emphasis in Applied Behavior Analysis, Kaplan University
  • BS, Health Sciences emphasis in Pre-Medicine, California Baptist University

Disclosures: None.

Current Position

  • Clinical Manager - Catalight
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Lindsey Sneed, Ph.D., BCBA-D
Developer and Instructor

Degrees/Credentials

  • Licensed Psychologist #PSY34154
  • Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Walden University
  • MS, Applied Psychology, Walden University
  • MS, Educational Counseling, National University
  • BA, Counseling Psychology, William Jessup University
  • RUBI Certified

Disclosures: None.

Current Position

  • Vice President of Clinical Excellence, Catalight
  • Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco