(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.

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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