Episode 188 - Professional Collaboration (OT Edition) w/ Dr. Michael Roberts

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode on our website to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at [email protected] for further assistance. In the latest in our professional collaboration series, we're joined with Dr. Michael Roberts, occupational therapist extrordinaire, to get to the bottom of the BCBA-OT practitioner divide. We have an illuminating time reviewing where BCBA's misunderstand OTs, OTs misunderstand BCBAs, and how much common ground both fields actually have. Guess you'll be the judge if this episode turned out to be our Kumbaya moment or not. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Whiting, C.C. & Muirhead, K. (2019). Interprofessional collaborative practice between occupational therapists and behavior analysts for children with autism.  Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools, & Early Intervention, 12, 466-475.  doi: 10.1080/19411243.2019.1672603 Gasiewski, K., Weiss, M.J., Leaf, J.B., & Labowitz, J. (2021). Collaboration between behavior analysis and occupational therapists in autism service provision: Bridging the gap.  Behavior Analysis in Practice, 14, 1209-1222.  doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00619-y White, H., Stokes, T.F., Simons, E., Longerbeam, M., Richardson, E., & Zinn, T. (2018). Interprofessional practice for simultaneous implementation of merged techniques from three disciplines: OT SLP ABA.  Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice, 12, 1-7.  doi: 10.1016/j.xjep.2018.04.001 Welch, C.D. & Polatajko, H.J. (2016). Applied behavior analysis, autism, and occupational therapy: A search for understanding. The America Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70, 1-5. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2016.018689