Supervision Series - Module 3: Behavioral Skills Training & Parent Training

For supervisors who need to move beyond explaining a procedure, Ann Beirne examines behavioral skills training (BST): instruction, modeling, rehearsal and feedback. Her examples address observable performance expectations, practice during teaching, and parent training that accounts for families' competing responsibilities.

Presenter biography: Ann Beirne.

This training does not provide CEU.

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Beirne distinguishes supervision toward independent practice from ongoing oversight. She uses procedural integrity checklists to separate required steps from personal preferences, then compares modeling in the actual setting, role play and video modeling.

The parent training block weighs family priorities, competing responsibilities and response effort when considering manageable workloads. Her self-feeding example examines the practical problem of collecting data when both hands are occupied.

Later examples apply BST to writing a task analysis, assessment, target selection, treatment planning and problem solving. The source review does not establish whether filmed demonstrations appear in the recording.

What does this recording cover?

• Beirne relates instruction, modeling, rehearsal and feedback to observable procedural steps.
• She compares modeling in the actual setting, role play and video modeling.
• She distinguishes reinforcing feedback from corrective feedback and explains the rationale for each.
• She examines family priorities, response effort and reinforcement for parents' teaching behavior.
• She applies BST to task analysis, data collection, assessment and treatment planning.

Recording context: The recording date is not supplied. Professional requirements and code references reflect the material discussed in the original session.

Three selected learner comments

The six-item evaluation mean was 3.38/5 across 8 complete responses, from 89 recorded rating responses. This mean includes only complete six-score responses. Source: Special Learning's course evaluation records, snapshot October 11, 2026.

Three selected anonymous responses appear below, with the wording and spelling retained. They describe learners' experiences and requests; they are not a guarantee of results or a claim that these comments represent every learner.

N/A. Another great presentation by Ms. Beirne. Interspersing questions throughout the presentation is very useful.

Course evaluation response, 2023

Keep asking questions throughout the training

Course evaluation response, 2024

video examples or more specific examples along the way to demonstrate what is being explained

Course evaluation response, 2023

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