RBT Continuing Education Courses
Your path to meeting your RBT requirements.
40-hour training, competency assessment, exam prep, and PDU renewal guidance, build for RBTs specifically.
12
PDUs every 2 years
RBT Requirements: 12 PDUs every 2-year recertification cycle from didactic coursework, in-service training, or ACE PD events.
Applies once you are newly certified or recertify in 2026. Set by the BACB and subject to change.
GETTING STARTED
Welcome to your RBT training hub
Whether you're starting your RBT journey or renewing this cycle, find training built for direct-service work, from your first 40 hours through ongoing PDUs.
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Learn what makes a reward actually work as a reinforcer. This topic covers motivating operations, satiation, delivering reinforcement right away and only for the target behavior, reinforcement schedules, and approved thinning. It also covers common mistakes such as bribery, negotiating, and late delivery.- Website
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Compare three teaching formats: discrete trial teaching, natural environment teaching, and incidental teaching. You’ll learn what each one looks like, who starts the teaching moment, and how to run each format the way the plan describes, including pacing, error correction, and mixing new and mastered targets.- Website
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Learn what to set up before a behavior happens. This topic covers preparing the environment, clear instructions, priming and precorrection, visual schedules, first-then boards, timers, choices, and high-probability request sequences. You’ll also learn how to use each one as written and report it accurately.- Website
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Is the prompt helping the client respond independently, or creating dependence on help? This topic covers prompt types, prompt hierarchies, most-to-least and least-to-most prompting, time delay, and fading. It also covers assent and dignity, and how to record prompted and independent responses correctly.- Website
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Learn how a replacement skill gives the client a better way to get the same outcome as a problem behavior. This topic covers function, communication modality, what makes a response practical and efficient, and honoring requests. It also covers teaching waiting, accepting “no,” and transitions.- Website
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The same word can be a request, a label, a repetition, or an answer. This topic explains the four verbal operants and the variables that control each one. You’ll learn how to make sure you are teaching the operant the plan calls for, and how to spot prompted or memorized responding.- Website
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Learn where the RBT’s role ends and the supervising analyst’s decisions begin. This topic covers following the plan versus changing it, asking for clarification, training and competency checks, and objective reporting. It also covers caregiver requests and what to do in a crisis, incident, or emergency.- Website
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Learn how to record data that shows what really happened. This topic covers frequency, rate, duration, latency, interresponse time, permanent product, trial-by-trial data, interval recording, momentary time sampling, and ABC recording. It also covers missed observations, corrections, and observer drift.- Website
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A mastered skill is only useful if the client can use it with other people, in other places, and over time. This topic covers stimulus and response generalization, probes, maintenance checks, natural reinforcement, and overgeneralization. You’ll also learn how to report what you see.- Website
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Learn exactly which response or time period earns reinforcement in each differential reinforcement procedure. This topic covers alternative and incompatible responses, whole-interval and momentary DRO, and resetting and nonresetting intervals. It also covers the common errors that change the rule without anyone noticing.- Website
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Learn how to carry out extinction procedures correctly and safely. This topic covers the consequence that maintains a behavior, extinction for attention, tangibles, and escape, extinction bursts, and behavior that returns. It also covers stopping rules, consistency across adults, and protecting the client’s dignity.- Website
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Learn how to choose the action that protects the client, stays within your role, and keeps records accurate. This topic covers dignity, confidentiality, professional boundaries, competence, and truthful documentation. It also covers conflicts of interest, representing your credentials, and reporting concerns.
What makes Behavior Connect different
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Fully Bilingual
Every RBT course is available in English and Spanish, not just translated marketing pages.
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Meets BACB Requirements
The 40-hour course and PDU library are built to support current BACB RBT requirements.
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Built for Direct Service
RBT content is written for entry-level, hands-on work, not adapted from BCaBA or BCBA material.
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