Pa. Code 5240.87

ABA services provision

This section defines the scope of ABA services within Pennsylvania's Chapter 5240 framework, specifying what behavior analytic services, behavior consultation-ABA, assistant behavior consultation-ABA, and BHT-ABA services each entail, including clinical direction, ITP development and oversight, functional analysis, and face-to-face behavioral interventions. It also restricts assistant behavior consultation-ABA and BHT-ABA providers from delivering interventions beyond their qualifications. Facility operators must ensure staff providing these services operate only within their credentialed scope of practice.

55 Pa. Code § 5240.87 - ABA services provision 

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(a)

 Behavior analytic services and behavior consultation-ABA services consist of
 clinical direction of services to a child, youth or young adult; development
 and revision of the ITP; oversight of the implementation of the ITP and
 consultation with a child's, youth's or young adult's treatment team regarding
 the ITP.

(b)
 In addition to the
 services listed in subsection (a), behavior analytic services include
 functional analysis.

(c)
 Assistant
 behavior consultation-ABA services consist of assisting an individual who
 provides behavior analytic services or behavior consultation-ABA services and
 providing face-to-face behavioral interventions.

(d)
 BHT-ABA services consist of implementing
 the ITP.

(e)
 An individual who
 provides assistant behavior consultation-ABA services and BHT-ABA services may
 not provide interventions requiring skills, experience, credentials or
 licensure that the individual does not possess.

Notes

55

 Pa. Code §
 
5240.87

This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
 
5240.97
 (relating to group
 services provision); and 55 Pa. Code §
 
5240.98
 (relating to requirements
 for group services in school
 settings).

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