Trainings & Presentations

Rachel Torrance, M.Ed., BCBA, COBA has been invited to and lead conferences sessions and trainings at the International, National, State, and Local levels over the past decade.

Services available include large group, small group or one-to-one trainings to parents and/or professionals via remote technology or in-person. These can be individualized based on your needs and formatted in a variety of ways from formal to informal and workshop-style trainings.

Types of Trainings & Presentations

  • Conference presentations

  • Agency/organization training (large agency or specific departments)

  • School-based trainings

  • Small group workshops

  • Panel and discussions

  • Make it and take it

  • Hands-on, behavior skills training


Practice Areas

  • Antecedent Interventions

  • Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

  • Assessments

  • Data and Objective Measures

  • Disabilities

  • Evidence-Based Practices

  • Positive Behavior Supports

  • School Law

  • Supervision and Training


Training Titles- Since March 2024

2024  

  • Practical and effective tools for the BCBA in the school-based setting

2023

  • OPEN discussion on how to support siblings of children with special needs

  • Building your team: identifying roles and key potential players in your child’s Multidisciplinary team

2022

  • Antecedent interventions and other considerations for ABA in school-based settings

  • Supervision in action

  • Making the most of your supervision

  • Incorporating evidence-based strategies for students with autism

  • Practical strategies for meeting student needs

  • Disseminating work as practitioners of ABA and applying/presenting

  • Parenting tips for the 2022-2023 school year

2021

  • Let’s talk supervision 2

  • Tips to jumpstart your career

  • ABA 101,

  • How to survive puberty (this time as a parent

  • Why behaviors occur and what parents can do about them

  • The behavior analyst’s guide to conducting more effective record reviews

  • The do’s and don’ts of professional relationships

  • Dual relationships

  • An introduction to school-based services for the behavior analyst

2020

  • The supervisor survival guide:  new BACB changes and an update of valuable resources for the supervisor

  • Promoting positive behaviors at home during COVID-19

  • How to tackle the test

  • A practical review of evidence-based practices in autism

  • Let’s Talk Supervision

  • Increasing learning outcomes and student engagement across remote and in-person settings

  • Parenting with success: the COVID edition

  • Better together: achieving goals and maximizing instruction across all learning platforms

  • 2022 changes to the fieldwork standards for those pursuing BCBA certification

2019

  • Implementing functional analyses:  a review of research and behavior skills training

  • Bring your own ethics 

  • Key considerations for BCBA supervisors

  • ABA and Lowe syndrome: meeting individual needs with the science of human behavior

  • Siblings workshop

  • Implementing ABA and positive supports in the school setting

  • From tantrums to triumphs

  • Recent research in treatment of challenging behaviors 

  • Developing a positive behavior support plan with ABA

  • How to get your preschooler to listen

2018

  • Analyze this:  the importance of the antecedent analysis in FBAs

  • Ethics panel discussion

  • FBA, BIP and the formula for success

2017

  • Working with individuals with DD

  • Ethical scenarios: sharing your experience

  • Going against the grain:  an update on the research and proposed solutions to achieve a more efficient and individualized approach to behavior analysis

  • IDEA and school law: The rules, regulations, recent changes and proposed opportunities for behavior analysis with special education

  • Bridging the gap: Using behavior analysis to enrich employment for individuals with autism and developmental disabilities

  • Super supervision:  tips, tricks and barriers to providing effective BCBA Supervision

  • Get your ethics here! A facilitated discussion on real-world ethical scenarios

  • Boosting your morale:  How to handle real-world ethical scenarios

  • The icing on the cake: adding visuals as part of your intervention package

  • What’s the big idea: Federal law, public schools and behavior analysis

  • The ABCs of learning, behavior, and reinforcement

  • Maximizing instruction to meet individual needs

  • Closing the gaps

  • Evidence-based practices: The long and the short of it

  • Real-world ethical scenarios

2016

  • What’s new: A review of the professional and ethical compliance code for behavior analysts

  • The keys to the castle:  Practical and effective evidence-based methods for individuals with ASD

  • A non-linear ABA approach: IABA’s multi-element model for the assessment and intervention of severe behaviors

  • The top ten essentials: creating a quality program for campers with special needs

  • Get your ethics here! A facilitated discussion on real-world ethical scenarios

  • Taking ethics into account when developing a multicultural ABA treatment model

  • CCBDD’s role in your child’s team: How we help individuals live, learn, work and play

2015

  • The importance of choice: creating more opportunities for choices and teaching a life-long skill

  • Technological resources

  • Trials and tribulations of functional analysis:  Integrating practical alternatives to alternatives to everyday practice

  • Visual supports to infinity and beyond: Integrating effective individualized visual supports across settings

  • Camp survival tools: setting up the environment for success

  • Sharing assessment tools and questionnaires

  • Challenging behaviors: setting up the environment for success

  • Ethics panel

  • Group panel discussion

  • Teaching listener responding with joint control

2014

  • Differentiated instruction:  Maximizing student learning across the school setting

  • Visual supports and strategies to meet camper/student needs

  • Behavior and curriculum intervention specialist department

  • Understanding and addressing challenging behaviors

2012

  • Strategies to meet the needs of students with special needs 

  • Best practices in the inclusion classroom

For an updated list of past training topics and other details click the button below to view an updated resume/curriculum vitae.