Breakthrough ADHD Training for Behavior Analysts: Using the Roadmap
When familiar ABA tools do not fully explain the executive-function challenges in front of you, it can feel like you are working harder without getting closer to the right answer. This course helps you see what may be missing—and gives you a practical way forward.
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The behavior may be labeled impulsive. The function may look like escape or attention. The intervention may be technically sound—and progress may still stall.
That does not mean you are missing competence or commitment. It may mean the assessment is not capturing the executive-function skills the person with ADHD is struggling to use.
You cannot design precisely for a barrier you have not been equipped to see.
Many behavior analysts were trained with tools built for different clinical questions. Those tools can be valuable while still giving limited direction when the central challenge involves planning, inhibition, working memory, task initiation, or flexible responding.
A deeper understanding of executive function helps you move beyond a broad behavior label and identify the skills that may need direct assessment and support.
Breakthrough ADHD Training walks you through the executive-function challenges commonly experienced by people with ADHD and shows you how to investigate those challenges more intentionally.
You will learn to use the Executive Function Roadmap for ADHD to organize what you observe, identify meaningful skill needs, and sharpen the questions guiding assessment.
Your registration includes a complimentary copy of the Roadmap.
Three hours of the course are live and synchronous, giving you opportunities to ask questions, offer suggestions, share feedback, and learn alongside other BCBAs.
By the end of the training, you will have:
Your instructor
Ryan is a BCBA with more than a decade of experience, an adult diagnosed with ADHD, and a parent of two boys with ADHD. He developed the Executive Function Roadmap to help behavior analysts assess the skills that conventional tools may not fully capture.
Participant evaluations
Ratings from 9 participants
Learning about skills that I can work on with my kiddos. Different assessments.
I really appreciated Ryan's knowledge and the ability to learn from other members of the class as well.
Group learning environment
This course was valuable because it's the only training of its kind, how to most effectively apply the science of ABA to the treatment of ADHD. The instructor was knowledgeable and provided resources for immediate application with clients and students.
I really found the executive functioning tool so interesting and helpful.
Learning actual tools I will be able to use right away both to identify skills needed and interventions to avoid/use
4.5 CE credits · $150
Join a live, practical, gamified learning experience designed for BCBAs—and leave with a complimentary Executive Function Roadmap for ADHD.
Reserve Your Spot Choose an available cohort on the next page.Ryan Baker-Barrett brings more than 20 years in applied behavior analysis to a practical, human-centered approach to ADHD and executive function.
MS, BCBA
Ryan Baker-Barrett, MS, BCBA
Ryan is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and ADHD specialist. He was diagnosed with ADHD at age 37, after years of working as a BCBA and even teaching continuing education courses about ADHD without recognizing the full pattern in himself.
That experience, combined with parenting two boys with ADHD, changed how he approaches assessment and intervention. His work focuses on identifying the executive-function skills behind the behavior so support can build independence, self-advocacy, and meaningful progress.
Reserve Your SpotProfessional foundation
MS in Special Education from Utah State University, Summa Cum Laude
Professional experience across Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and California
Founder of Applied Behavioral Health Practice in San Diego
Community Advisory Committee for Special Education in San Diego
Listen and learn
Hear Ryan discuss ADHD assessment, executive function, and neurodiversity-affirming ABA.
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Breakthrough ADHD Training for Behavior Analysts
Join Ryan for a bold, warm, and highly practical learning experience designed to help BCBAs assess executive-function challenges with greater clarity.
4.5 CE credits · $150 · Registration continuously availableShow the world you've completed the
Breakthrough ADHD Training for Behavior Analysts™
Current Cohorts
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New cohorts available for 2026-2027!
Mondays 5 PM Pacific
Wednesdays 2 PM Pacific
Fridays 9 AM Pacific
Saturdays 10 AM Pacific
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Where's the actual hole in your knowledge right now?
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Here's something built so you'll actually show up: live, cohort-based, real engagement with an instructor and other BCBAs. That's the Breakthrough ADHD Training format.
See the cohort details →Start here: a quick read on where the real ADHD CEU gaps are for most BCBAs, plus my full course catalog on BehaviorLive so you can pick what actually fills yours.
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Group Rate
We offer group rates of 15% off for 5-10 seats and 25% off for 11 or more seats.
Our group rates also come with a custom schedule, so we'll find times that work for your organization.
