A Behavior Analytic Framework for Assessing Sleep Timing and Building Bedtime Routines
Ready Set Sleep and Hi Rasmus are hosting a two-part live webinar series on sleep in autism services. Part 1 is presented by Emily Varon, MS, BCBA, of Ready Set Sleep and Juliane Morawski, MA, BCBA, LBA, CBSP, of Hi Rasmus on Thursday, October 15 at 12 p.m. ET. The session covers a behavior analytic framework for assessing sleep timing and building bedtime routines in ABA.
Sleep affects nearly everything we measure in autism services—but for many providers, treating it can feel outside our scope.
This introductory webinar is designed to close that gap and give you a practical starting point. We’ll look at why sleep belongs in behavior analytic practice, what a full night of sleep actually gives a learner across health, learning, and behavior, and how sleep is already recognized as a measured outcome in autism care. We’ll also talk honestly about what families have usually tried before they reach us—including melatonin—and how those attempts can become setting events and barriers of their own. Then we’ll get practical with two antecedent strategies: stabilizing sleep timing to match age-appropriate sleep needs, and signalling sleep through a consistent bedtime routine—the motivating operation and discriminative stimulus of a contingency you already know.
Whether you’re a BCBA, clinical leader, or direct service provider, you’ll walk away with a shared language for sleep, a clearer sense of where your scope begins and ends, and a one-page tool to use with your next family.
In this session, we’ll cover:
- Why there’s a gap in how our field addresses sleep—and why it’s worth talking about
- What sleep does for health, learning, and behavior
- Sleep as a patient-centered outcome already measured in autism care
- What families have often already tried, and how it can add to setting events and barriers
- Stabilizing sleep timing to age-appropriate sleep needs
- Signalling sleep through a consistent bedtime routine
This session is ideal for teams looking to add sleep to their clinical toolkit and take a first, practical step toward treating the whole child.
Who Should Attend
BCBAs, clinical leaders, and direct service providers. Part 1 is built for teams that want to add sleep to their clinical toolkit, starting with sleep timing and bedtime routines in ABA, and take a first practical step toward treating the whole child. Part 2 on October 29 continues with night wakings and independent sleep, sign-up will be available after Part 1.
Attend live and earn free CEUs for Part 1 on October 15. at 12pm EST.
