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Pathways

Two routes, depending on where you are

A small group of professionals in an IBT teaching session.

IBT — International Behavior Technician

40 hours. The entry route for people beginning in behaviour analysis: teaching assistants, shadow teachers, therapy assistants, and parents who want a formal grounding.

  • Foundations of behaviour analysis, measurement and ethics
  • Supervised practice with real feedback

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IBA — International Behavior Analyst

270 hours. The full professional certification, for those intending to practise as behaviour analysts and to supervise others.

  • Assessment, intervention design, and data-based decision making
  • Ethics, supervision and cultural competency
  • Mentorship from a certified IBA mentor

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At a glance

IBT and IBA, side by side

The two certification pathways answer different questions. IBT is where most people start; IBA is the analyst credential that lets you design and supervise programmes rather than deliver them.

A comparison of the IBT and IBA certification pathways at The Project Hope
Comparison point IBTInternational Behavior Technician IBAInternational Behavior Analyst
Taught hours 40 hours of IBAO-approved content 270 hours of IBAO-approved content
Who it is for People entering the field, and those already working with children who want the practice behind it Practitioners who will assess, design programmes and supervise others
What you do after Deliver behaviour-analytic programmes under supervision Conduct assessments, write plans, supervise technicians
Supervised practice Required by the IBAO alongside the taught hours Required by the IBAO alongside the taught hours
Supervision available here Yes — a Certified Supervisor on site Yes — supervision and mentorship both
Delivered In person in Islamabad, or online In person in Islamabad, or online
Dates and fee IBT schedule, format, prerequisites, assessment, fee, next intake IBA schedule, format, prerequisites, assessment, fee, next intake

Why the supervision row matters. Most providers sell the taught hours and stop there — the candidate then has to find a supervisor somewhere else, and the hours only count if that supervisor is certified. Here the coursework, the supervised hours, the mentorship and the CEUs come from one Approved Content Provider who is also a Certified Supervisor, Mentor and CEU Provider. One accountable person, one pathway.

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Who trains here

Not only professionals

Most training pages assume you are building a career. Plenty of the people who train here are not — they are parents who decided that understanding the method is better than waiting outside the room.

Most welcome

Parents and caregivers

You do not need a psychology degree, and you are not too late. Parents who learn the principles stop guessing: they can see why a behaviour is happening, respond the same way every time, and carry a therapy goal into an ordinary Tuesday.

We think this is among the most valuable training we deliver. The founder’s own MS research was on exactly this — family involvement and whether skills survive outside the session — and the finding was blunt: the family decides.

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Building a career

Practitioners and students

Psychology and education graduates, therapists, teachers, SLPs and OTs working towards IBT or IBA certification, or accumulating supervised hours and CEUs.

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Working with children already

Schools, aides and organisations

Shadow teachers and classroom aides, school staff running inclusive classrooms, and organisations who want their own people trained rather than buying in support forever.

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Training for parents and caregivers

Learn the method, not just the instructions

A short, practical course for parents, grandparents, siblings and anyone else who is with the child every day. No jargon, no prerequisites, and nothing you need to have studied first.

What it covers

  • Why behaviour happens. How to work out what a behaviour is achieving, rather than treating it as something to stop.
  • Teaching a replacement. Giving a child a better way to get the same result, which is the only thing that makes a behaviour go away and stay away.
  • Communication first. Building requests, choices and refusal — including where speech is not the route.
  • Routines and transitions. The parts of a day that go wrong most often, and how to change the setup rather than the child.
  • Being consistent when you are exhausted. Strategies that survive a bad week, because the ones that need perfect conditions do not survive real life.
  • Knowing whether it is working. Simple recording you can actually keep up, so you are not relying on memory or mood.

What it is not

It is not a certification, and it does not make you your child’s therapist. It is not a substitute for therapy, and we will say so if what your child needs is a therapist rather than a course. What it does is stop the week between sessions being wasted.

format (in person or online), length, group size, dates and fee — and whether any places are funded, as they are for therapy

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Programmes

What we can train, and who it is for

Certification pathways sit alongside shorter, practical programmes. Everything below is delivered by an IBAO Approved Content Provider, in person in Islamabad or online.

Parent & caregiver training

The principles, in plain language, for the people with the child every day. No prerequisites.

Shadow teacher & classroom aide training

For the person sitting beside a child in class: what to prompt, when to fade, and how not to become the reason a child cannot work alone.

Early intervention skills

Working with the youngest children, where play is the method and the family is most of the plan.

School staff & inclusion

For teachers and school leaders: what an IEP is for, reasonable adjustments, and running a classroom where inclusion is real rather than nominal.

Life skills & independence

Daily routines, community access and employment readiness — including for adolescents and adults, whose services usually stop at eighteen.

IBT — 40 hours

The International Behavior Technician pathway, for people starting a career in behaviour analysis.

IBA — 270 hours

The full International Behavior Analyst pathway, with supervision and mentorship through certification.

Supervision & CEUs

Supervised hours the IBAO accepts, and continuing education units including ethics, supervision and cultural competency.

Every programme above is something we are authorised and equipped to deliver. confirm which are currently running, and their dates, format and fees — a programme with no date beside it converts far worse than one with a date

Supervision & CEUs

Beyond the coursework

Supervision

Certified to supervise candidates on both the IBA and IBT pathways.

Mentorship

Certified IBA mentor — guidance through the certification process itself.

Continuing education

An IBAO-authorised CEU provider, including ethics, supervision and cultural competency.

Practice setting

Training happens inside a working centre, so supervised hours are with real cases.

Who delivers it

Certified by the IBAO

Your training is delivered and signed off by Muhammad Farooq E Azam Awan, IBAO-certified International Behavior Analyst (certificate IBA_072025_002612). That matters here more than anywhere else on this site: content from an Approved Content Provider counts towards your certification, and hours signed by a Certified Supervisor are the hours the IBAO will accept.

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Certified as an International Behavior Analyst at 24, and holding Approved Content Provider, Certified Supervisor, Certified Mentor and CEU Provider authorisations at the same time — a combination few practitioners hold at any age, and one that means you can train, be supervised, and be certified without leaving the country.

Two further claims worth publishing once they can be evidenced: being among the youngest IBAs certified, and the examination result. Both are strong, and both need something a sceptical reader can check — an IBAO statement, a cohort figure, or a score report. Unsourced superlatives are the first thing a competitor challenges.

What each authorisation lets us do for you

Approved Content Provider

Authorised to deliver IBA and IBT training content.

Certified Supervisor

For candidates on both pathways.

Certified Mentor

For IBA candidates.

CEU Provider

Authorised to issue continuing education units.

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Tell us which pathway interests you and where you are in your career.

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