Caretaker Training, Parent Training, Applied Behavior Analysis
RAPID Skills Training and Coaching (d/b/a RST, Inc.) is designed specifically for a wide variety of parents, caretakers and teachers.
RST was intentionally built to be an extremely user-friendly program that ensures caretakers are successful and can see results quickly in an errorless intervention paradigm.
All approaches listed above are all within the domain of Behavior Analysis & Therapy yet, the primary focus of RST service is placed on behavior skills training methodology for parents, caregivers and teachers, who are the powerful sources for creating positive behavior change within their family units.
Therefore, RST's curricula and overall approach is built specifically to address the individualized circumstances experienced by Parents, Caretakers & Teachers. Of which are often excluded, ignored and/or forgotten by traditional therapeutic approaches.
Caretaker training is critical and yet, it continues to be left out of the hectic daily schedules which demand high levels of therapeutic contact hours (ie, intensive ABA).
Caretaker are paramount "behavioral-stewards" who hold the key to creating desired change and by far they play the most critical role in a loved one's or student's life in total. With user-friendly, non-technical and genuinely supportive services caretakers can provide a doable path to happiness in life and most importantly, long lasting, meaningful behavior change for their loved ones and students.
RST ultimately results in lifestyle changes for the entire community supporting their loved ones and students. Provided outside of regular therapeutic settings in home and community-based environments, caretakers are tasked with managing difficult intensities of hard to handle challenging behavior.
Many therapeutic programs for individuals displaying unattractive behavior on a frequent basis often ignore or exclude the extremely important role of caretakers. Loved ones and students diagnosed with autism and related pervasive, developmental and/or congenital cephalic disorders spend most of their lives with their primary caretakers & teachers and overall only spend minimal time with a therapists, even when the most intensive interventions are provided.
The RST approach and curricula based skills development program was built by Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs), Certified Special Education Teachers and Parents of lovd ones diagnosed with RST is based on a foundation of scientifically evaluated, evidence driven methodology called "Behavior Skills Training" or BST. Ultimately the goals are individualized to the circumstances of the families we work which puts the most important people in the lives of loved ones with autism, pervasive & developmental delays, brain-based disorders and a variety of pervasive challenging behaviors including but not limited to physical aggression, property disruption, elopement, self-injury and caretakers provided within the family's natural environment but is also provided in a workshop format. Active caretaker participation helps us achieve sustained behavior change, of which they never even thought possible, creating more happiness.
Parent training should be palatable, doable, user-friendly and create some meaningful result fairly quickly. Accomplishing this takes a well designed curricula with caretakers as primary participants, professional coaching, weekly but brief practice sessions in analoge environments, specific feedback and active caretaker participation.
As parents of loved ones diagnosed with severe brain-based disorders, as experienced behavioral-health professionals who founded multiple behavioral-health , human service companies, serving thousands of families over 25+ years, created hundreds of jobs, we empathize with your families current circumstances.
Therefore, we've dedicated our entire lives to helping other parents, caretakers and teachers benefit from very powerful teaching, behavioral & medical sciences.
Vetting and testing the most critical, core interaction skills every caretaker needs from leading research in the field we were able to develop a program that teaches caretakers five of the most important social intervention and interaction skill sets needed to create successful daily interactions with loved one and students. By taking the most successfully proven parent-child, teacher-student and relationship building methodologies over a full decade, we provide highly demanded, sought out quality parent, caretaker and teacher training across the MidWest USA.
RST is designed for lifestyle change provided in natural environments:
Caretakers must be involved, engaged, participatory and cooperative with parent training programs to achieve outcomes they desire, see the study outlined below as an example of how the number of sessions attended and other factors affect outcomes of treatment programs or training approaches like RST. When caretakers become teachers during naturally occurring activities, learners are more successful, happy and the family experiences a better quality of life together. This helps make each day more enjoyable and fun for everyone! That’s ultimately the goal, right? Happiness is not a tangible product or guarantee. There is a behavioral cost, you must work hard to get better and achieve the results you truly need to be happy.
RAPID Training (RST) is federally trademarked in The United States of America (USA) as a parent, caretaker, direct support staff, certified teacher & first-responder training program based on peer reviewed methods withing “Applied Behavior Analysis” (ABA), "Clinical Behavior Analysis" (CBA), “The Power of Positive Parenting” and “Parenting the Strong-Willed Child“. It is absolutely not and far from the debunked “rapid prompting method”, which is a version of the long debunked “facilitated communication (FC)“. Dr. Matt Brodhead explains why FC is pseudoscience and why ABA is the golden standard for training skills. Ultimately, RST provides you with much-needed relief. You’ll learn how to better prevent difficult to manage behavior, keeping your loved one in a position to learn how to adapt to the world around them and live happily. Based on our professional experience over the last two decades, when RST is interwoven into individualized behavior analysis & therapy services, results can be astounding.
It’s well known and documented in respected journals and through peer review, when the family and natural supports are included in the treatment process, results are just simply much better… Again, we do not recommend implementing this RST program or any behavior program without professional consultation from a qualified licensed behavior health professional. The RAPID Skills Training (RST) exercise guides are located in the links above and, require coaching, feedback, practice and oversight from a qualified behavioral health professional.
This approach is an interactive, caretaker training package designed from evidence-based procedures including:
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RST is based primarily on principles consistent with Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). It's a caretaker training approach designed specifically to address the fractured nature of most of the behavioral-health literature, which supports a wide range of different and sometimes contradictory approaches to caretaker training. It was born from clinical frustration and designed by BCBA parents for anyone struggling with a loved one or student. The primary goal of parent training should be to bring more happiness and joy to families through transfering behavioral technology.
Parent Training | Caretaker Training Applied Behavior Analysis with other related contributions helped inform RST as a user friendly, doable approach and lifestyle change program for anyone, you can be successful in creating more happiness and joy in life for your family with RST services!
Anyone responsible for daily interactions and activities of a loved one with difficult to manage behavioral challenges can learn critical interaction skills. Providing a doable lifestyle change for improving happiness in life. We do not recommend implementing any individualized program or any type of “behavior skills training” or “behavior alteration” program without professional consultation from a qualified behavior-health professional. The RAPID Skills Training (RST) exercise guides located in the links above require specific competency, professional coaching, feedback, regular daily practice and consultative oversight from a qualified behavioral health professional. Initially during RST Phase I, classroom type teaching on the RST program’s definitions and purpose occur with the family in the natural environment (ie., where the behaviors of concern are most likely to be observed). Learning to competence the termanology, purpose and the overall mission is provided in a 1:1 or small group, classroom-type setting. RST Phase II, we focus on proactive measures and practice of each skill. RST Phase III, we focus on reactive measures and practice of each skill. Lastly, Phase IV is provided (only if necessary) and the program is individually advanced based on the outcome data from the previous phases. After successfully completing each Phase of RST the complexity of implementation increases subtly, in the following RST Phase yet, we don’t move forward until mastery & competency has been accomplished.This approach can create the foundation for teaching your students, loved ones and program participants’ important functional life skills, needed to live happier and more independently, and important social skills. Simply hearing more words early in life is linked to higher IQ scores, attending and rewarding interactions affect the brain of the learner in positive ways from birth through full development, recovery and/or learning at any age. There are layers of benefits related to learning RST across all environments for families and it’s design is made in simple formats on purpose. Increasing the probability of success as well as, being based on essential principles of errorless learning, the way in which you provide training affects the actual outcomes of the training more than the materials alone. We’ve taken into account variables that affect families (ie, some are outlined in the study below) from crises, marital status, economic strain, mental health barriers, and participation levels. This program is designed to be available 24/7/365 to caretakers and should be viewed as a way of life, not a program per-se… Metaphorically, this is not a diet, it is a way to eat for the rest of your life!