Kenya ABA
By Pooja Panesar
Kenya Association for Behavior Analysis (KABA) is moving forward with local registration this year. The process has been quite lengthy and arduous, but all documents have been accepted and verified, and we are in the vetting stage. Hopefully this should be complete soon, making us a legal local entity and recognized as part of an international organization.
There are four BCBAs and one QBA in Kenya currently, and we have had a few meetings to discuss the chapter’s way forward. This has been quite exciting as we all have different areas of expertise and areas of interest, which cover everything from parent training, journal reviews, and dissemination of ABA with professionals as well. Discussions are also ongoing on the development of a regulatory body, or registration with a local licensure to recognize ABA. The challenge faced in our community is unsupervised ABA services for families with autistic children which needs to be monitored.
KABA is still lacking the manpower and resources to pick up pace as we would like, but we celebrate a huge milestone with the local registration and added number of certificants. The main team is comprised of the certificants, and all have families and work (power to women led organizations!) which limits the time we can volunteer. We hope to reach out to the community and begin memberships and other activities in the near future. We celebrate every milestone as we go along and keep moving one step at a time to ensure ABA will be disseminated positively and any services under the ABA umbrella will be of the highest quality and well regulated.
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