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When I first met Emaley McCulloch in person, I couldn’t believe that she was only thirty years old. She’d already started her company Autism Training Solutions, which provides ABA online training programs, and was a leader in the online education space for the autism community. Emaley “fell” into autism when she was in high school, where she trained as an in-home therapist. By the time she graduated from high school, she’d already had nearly three years of experience under her belt.

After graduating from college, Emaley moved to Hawaii to start a school for children with autism. Soon she found herself going back and forth from Tokyo to Honolulu, training different groups of people about ABA therapy. She found that she was presenting the same kind of information over and over again, but it lacked the follow-up that she felt it needed.

I had experienced the same sort of dilemma. Traveling and speaking about ABA therapy wasn’t letting me reach the number of individuals I knew I could be helping. So when Emaley and her business partner reached out to me to collaborate in their online education venture, I was thrilled. I believed in the power of online training; there are more children with autism than there are professionals who can meet the needs of people that need to be trained effectively, and I wanted to help fix that imbalance.

Online learning is a lot of time and effort up front, but over the long run, it is incredibly cost effective. Of course, you can’t just throw up a video and talk at your audience. Emaley and I talk about some of the ways we’ve integrated online learning with hands-on learning, and we discuss the many ways ABA online training can increase learning retention.

Technology can be a powerful tool to teach, to connect, and to help children reach their fullest potential. Using all of the tools we have at our disposal will help us strengthen the autism community wherever they may live in the world.

Today’s Guest

Emaley McCulloch co-founded Autism Training Solutions (ATS), an online learning company, in 2010 which has trained hundreds of thousands of professionals and parents around the globe in evidence-based autism interventions. ATS was acquired by Relias in 2014 and after serving as the VP of Research for years, Emaley is currently the Vice President of Clinical Products at Motivity Systems. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and holds an MA in Special Education. She has over 20 years experience in the field of autism and ABA and has provided and overseen services to hundreds of individuals between the ages of 18 months to 24 years in homes, schools and clinical settings. For eight years, she served as a consultant and Clinical Supervisor at agencies based in Hawaii and Japan where she trained groups of professionals and parents.

You’ll Learn

  • Why stories increase the learning retention rate for students.
  • The benefits and drawbacks of online learning for adults.
  • A real-life example of how Emaley uses online learning to train and teach caretakers.
  • How online ABA learning can help train more professionals to meet the needs of the autism community.

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