Being Flexible
with Jordan Litt
Behavior Bites Podcast - Episode 08Feb 22, 2023Don’t you want your Continuing Education to be fun and relatable?
In today’s show— Jordan, the Co-Founder of CEUs by Study Notes ABA, and I discuss how you can learn a lot from fellow colleagues.
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Amuse-Bouche
What’s your beef with people teaching their dogs to use those talking-dog buttons?
Appetizers
How did you get into Behavior Analysis?
What’s something you wish you could have told yourself when you were getting started?
Palate Cleanser
What is your favorite quintessential New York dish?
Entree
You’re the co-founder of CEUs by Study Notes ABA, how did that come to be?
What were some of the struggles you encountered?
What have been some of the rewarding aspects?
Besides my two courses, what are some of your favorite CE courses?
Dessert
How do you practice self-care? How do you balance life and work?
Excerpts from the Episode
(*Paraphrased highlights)-
I love looking at how verbal behavior can be expanded and better understood. What I don't love is people extrapolating from those talking buttons.
Also, I think the biggest thing that I have issue with is how are they being taught?
When I see “why” or “sad” (buttons), and I definitely believe animals feel emotions, but how did you teach sad?
Are they sad? Or is it just being reinforced?
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I think the biggest thing is to work on flexibility.
Know that it's probably going to be hectic, and some days are not going to be rewarding. At the end of the day just relying on: it’ll be fine, we’ll get it done, we’ll figure it out, and if it doesn’t get done then I need to ask for help. That was something I also struggled with; asking for help.
Another thing is, you have to take sick days.
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I’ve met so many people from across the United States and all around the world. That's been really cool, and that also allows me to ask questions and learn from different cultures.
However, I’ve discovered there are so many different styles of people implementing ABA, depending on geographically where they are, which is actually a bit concerning.
At baseline I'm expecting any behavior analyst to have the same basic building blocks, but it’s really different, like how people are taking data or graphing using percentage or rate.
ABOUT Jordan
Jordan Litt, M.Ed., BCBA, LBA-NYS, (she/her)
* Take Study Notes ABA CEUs* Follow SNABA on Instagram: @StudyNotesABA* Email Jordan: ceu@studynotesaba.com
Jordan is a BCBA, LBA-NYS and the ACE Coordinator and Co-Founder of CEUs by Study Notes ABA. Her start in behavior analysis wasn’t a straight shot to learning. In the beginning, she really struggled to find her footing until the day she was introduced to Verbal Behavior (the approach and book by B.F. Skinner). From then on, she has worked each and every day to cultivate her skills and knowledge of the science of behavior analysis. Jordan worked in a variety of environments that have taught her the true value of generalization.
What truly lights Jordan up is helping other people understand more from “simple” to advanced concepts, because she thinks that's also one of the barriers to being a good BCBA. Accepting the fact that concepts/ideas are advanced for a reason means that she’s going to have to study it, it's not going to be cut and dry, there will always be things she doesn’t quite understand, and so she must keep on learning. This is the hard part. But it’s also the fun part!
On the rare occasions when she’s not doing all things CEUs by SNABA related, you can find her hanging out with her dog, Moose.
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