(a) A LBA shall provide supervision of applied behavior analysis (ABA) services under the LBA’s extended authority and direction to all designated persons as provided in this part.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-11-308

  • Co-employed relationship: means the licensed behavior analyst and licensed assistant behavior analyst are employed by the same employer. See Tennessee Code 63-11-302
  • Committee: means the applied behavior analyst licensing committee of the board of examiners in psychology, created by §. See Tennessee Code 63-11-302
  • Employee-employer relationship: means the licensed behavior analyst is the employer of the licensed assistant behavior analyst. See Tennessee Code 63-11-302
  • LABA: means an individual who is certified as a board certified assistant behavior analyst (BCABA) and is licensed in this state to practice applied behavior analysis under the extended authority and supervision of a licensed behavior analyst. See Tennessee Code 63-11-302
  • LBA: means an individual who is certified as a board certified behavior analyst (BCBA) or board certified behavior analyst-doctoral (BCBA-D) and is licensed in this state to practice applied behavior analysis as an independent practitioner. See Tennessee Code 63-11-302
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Supervision: means the direct observation and provision of feedback to a supervisee by an LBA or an LABA who is supervised by an LBA. See Tennessee Code 63-11-302
(b) A LABA shall work under the supervision of an LBA.
(c)

(1) A LBA shall provide supervision to a maximum of six (6) LABAs concurrently, with the supervision to be conducted as follows:

(A) A minimum of two (2) hours for each forty (40) hours of services provided by a LABA;
(B) A minimum of one-half (1/2) of all supervision hours shall involve real time interactions;
(C) A minimum of one-half (1/2) of all supervision hours shall involve one-to-one interactions between supervisors and supervisees. The remainder may be conducted in small group format.
(2) Acceptable supervision activities include:

(A) Direct observation of the LABA delivering ABA services to service recipients;
(B) Direct observation of the LABA training family members and staff to implement ABA assessment or intervention procedures;
(C) Demonstrating ABA assessment or intervention procedures;
(D) Coaching supervisees in implementing ABA assessment or intervention procedures;
(E) Reviewing and discussing treatment goals and procedures;
(F) Reviewing service recipient progress data; and
(G) Reviewing and discussing relevant research articles and other professional literature.
(d) A formal professional relationship shall exist between a supervising LBA and LABA in the form of:

(1) A co-employed relationship; or
(2) An employee-employer relationship.
(e) LABAs shall notify the committee within ten (10) business days of any change in supervision status.
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