ABA Switzerland – 2025 Annual Report – Inside Behavior Analysis

By Claudia Grant, Erika Glaus, Federica Cecere, Annemarie Elias

In 2024, we continued work on our website, translating it into German, Italian and French, to provide full accessibility to anyone interested, in a country with multiple official languages.

Our registry of qualified professionals has been updated and now offers a quick view of specialists whose qualifications have been thoroughly checked, reflecting our chapter’s focus on setting high professional standards.

In the same spirit, we have developed our national guidelines of ethics, both for behaviour analysts with master’s degrees (has been released for the members’ review) and for supervised persons on a technician level (including RBTs, students working towards their advanced degrees and accruing practical experience while delivering one on one ABA services). The latter document is currently under the board’s review, to be later released for the members’ input.

We organised and delivered two webinars: Shannon Biagi – “An Introduction to Human Performance Technology for Behaviour Analysts” and Kate Fiske & James Christy: “Through a Parent’s Lens: Understanding and Supporting Families of Individuals with ASD”. We had also planned a third webinar – Dr. Maithri Sivaraman on Telehealth – unfortunately, we had to cancel it due to low participant enrolment.

In March 2024, we met with the BACB’s Director of International Support, Dr. Neil Martin, to discuss activities the chapter could be organising to gain academic and professional (from other fields) awareness. As 2024 was a challenging year for the chapter, we shall revisit the discussion and action points in 2025 and decide on one to two top priorities to be kicked off.

In terms of international collaborations, ABA Switzerland became an EABA affiliated chapter. We continue to follow and support the EABA and OnPac activities.

As a small chapter – and profession altogether – we continued to struggle with maintaining members’ motivation and involvement, on a background or low public recognition and no insurance/academic or clinic support from national or professional organisations.

At the members’ general meeting held in January 2025, it was decided to continue our efforts and maintain the organisation. A few board members had to step off after many years of dedicated service – new members were elected for the vacant positions.