We are very excited to have our in-house BCBAs, Rita Hiatt present Use of Stimulus Equivalence Procedures to Support Emergent Intraverbals. This free CE opportunity is brought to you by the ABS Kids Learning Department and is open to all BCBAs and BATs. Earn 1.5 LRN CEs.
About Your Host
Rita Hiatt is an Assistant Director of ABA Services at ABS Kids in Winston-Salem, NC. She holds a Master of Arts in Psychology from Florida Atlantic University, where her research focused on how variations in stimulus input affect young children’s ability to learn novel words. She later earned a second Master’s degree in Applied Behavior Analysis from Western Michigan University and became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2017. Rita has provided ABA services across home, school, and clinic settings, working with children of all ages and abilities. Her professional interests include relational frame theory, acceptance and commitment training, and the intersection between cognition and behavior analysis. She is passionate about using this lens to support flexible, meaningful language development in the learners she serves.
- Certified as BCBA Since: 2017
- Practical/Clinical Experience Since: 2017
- Teaching Experience Since: 2024
- Published Articles/Books: NO
CE Summary:
- Rita Hiatt, BCBA, LBA will be presenting on the role of stimulus equivalence in emerging intraverbal responding. Have you ever taught intraverbal responses to a learner, only to see limited flexibility and rote responding? In this CEU, we’re going to talk about how to move beyond that. We’ll break down the basics of stimulus equivalence and how we can use those principles to teach intraverbal behavior that emerges, not just gets memorized. We’ll discuss how match-to-sample, tacting, and listener responding all play a role in building the kinds of stimulus relations that make flexible language possible. Then we’ll put it all together and show how to set up programs that lead to true generative responding. Whether you’re working with early learners or more advanced kids, this will give you a solid, practical way to teach language that sticks, without relying only on rote repetition.
CE Learning Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Define stimulus equivalence and explain the three main types of derived relations: reflexivity, symmetry, and transitivity.
- Describe how match-to-sample tasks, listener responding, and tacting can all support the emergence of intraverbal behavior.
- Apply this knowledge by sketching out a sample teaching plan to promote emergent intraverbals using equivalence-based instruction.
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*Certificates are generated within 2-weeks of the event
