Association Française—Les Professionnels de l’Analyse du Comportement

By Hélène Abdelnour and Mélodie Geneste

AF-LPA is one of the French chapters in France.

This year, we continued our work with the Education Nationale, the local governmental entity in charge of managing the schools. Thanks to this collaboration, we can train the shadow teachers of students living with a handicap and going to public schools through an initial training, then we supervise the shadow teacher by going inside of the schools and giving her tools to help the student. We can also propose a person to be hired as a shadow teacher and we work closely with the governmental entity to help advance each situation. The professionals that are part of the association can now ask to be part of this contract in order to help their own clients.

In addition, our team is currently working on developing an online repertoire of certified behavior analysts in order for clients to find good services more efficiently and for students to find supervisors more easily.

Also, in June 2023, we participated in the organization of an annual event in collaboration with ABA Online to bring internationally recognized ABA professionals here in France to present the most up-to-date scientific knowledge and to create a yearly meeting where French ABA professionals can meet.