Mission Statement

          Behavior Analysis is without question one of the most dynamic professions with significant impact in behavioral medicine, mental health, health, sports and fitness, developmental disabilities, school wide positive behavioral support, special education, organizational dynamics, criminology, offender rehabilitation, and education today. The emphasis on prevention, early intervention, accurate comprehensive functional behavioral assessment, collaboration, and problem solving demands behavior analysts to be creative thinkers who command a tremendous range of evidence-based procedures based on principles of the science of human behavior.  Keeping up with best practices is critical to ensuring that the client’s right to effective behavioral intervention is ensured. The Behavior Analyst Online organization is dedicated to helping behavior analysts keep up with current research and methodology in this rapidly progressing field.

           The BAO organization will develop and deploy new resources making them available on the internet free of charge to the public. These resources will be dedicated to educating the public about Behavior Analysis as well as serving as a resource for professionals involved in research and/or application of principles of Behavior Analysis.

          The BAO organization will be responsible to its membership to develop resources that the membership will find useful in everyday research, education, and application of the science of behavior.

     The BAO organization will be operated under the guidance of its Senior Membership Board.

     This site provides behavior analysts with:

     -  Theory, basic and applied research, model development based on behavioral principles, behavioral development, and behavioral practice

     -   Expectations and roles of the behavior analyst

    -   Collaboration and communication with other stakeholders

     -  Assessment strategies including functional assessment and analysis, curriculum based measurement, direct and analogue assessment

    -   Behavioral Interventions

    -   Laws, funding, and public policy

    -  Organizational Behaviors Management level strategies and interventions for mental health, developmental disabilities, and      educational interventions and systems for intervening

     -  Training and professional standards

    Vision

    The vision of BAO organization is to develop specific resources including, but not limited to: 

      -  Online eJournals 
      -  Online referral services 
      -  Professional Placement Services 
      -  Behavior Analysis Web Boards 
      -  Document Shares 
      -  Email Newsletters 
      -  Online Behavior Analysis Storefronts 

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