United in Care: Ethical Programming and Transitions for Secondary Aged Students Through Transdisciplinary Collaboration
As autistic students transition to post-secondary experiences, effective transdisciplinary collaboration across school, home, and clinical settings becomes essential in ensuring ethical, compassionate, and socially valid support. This presentation will explore how identifying ethical boundaries, defining collaborative competencies, and applying a structured framework for transdisciplinary and transition practice can lead to deliberate partnerships that promote success in the least restrictive environments for secondary aged students who require very substantial support. Emphasizing the role of behavior analysts in both shaping student repertoires and empowering families, the presentation will highlight how data-driven practices can support the transfer of instructional histories and foster meaningful transition outcomes. Practical strategies for family engagement will be shared, along with ethical considerations and a framework for transdisciplinary collaboration.
Learning Objectives
- Identify how transdisciplinary collaboration is a cornerstone of the code of ethics across multiple disciplines and how it contributes to ethical programming, goal setting, accessing the least restrictive environment and compassionate care for individuals
- Define competencies and learn a framework for facilitating transdisciplinary collaboration for school-based, home-based and clinic-based practices for secondary aged students and transition programming.
- Identify how transdisciplinary collaboration is critical to the promotion of behavior analytic practices with respect to social validity, acceptability to the field of ABA and transition programming.
About Instructor
Dr. Amy Davies Lackey received her Ph.D. in Special Education and Applied Behavior Analysis from Columbia University Teachers College. She was the recipient of the Nelle Taylor Award in Special Education and is a BCBA and LBA whose expertise is in the education of individuals with autism as well as their families. Her diverse teaching experiences include regular education, incarcerated juvenile violent offenders in special education, mainstream settings, parent education, and teaching individuals with autism using Applied Behavior Analysis for the past 25 years. Her research has been presented at numerous conferences in the field. She has focused primarily on teaching social skills and observational learning to children with autism and related disabilities, teacher training, as well as parent education.
Dr. Davies Lackey is currently the Director of Education at Manhattan Children's Center, an adjunct professor of education for several universities.
