The Association for Maine Behavior Analysis will hold its 12th annual conference on
Friday, April 10, 2026
Doors open at 8am, with the business portion at 8:30 and the first talk at 9am. We plan to have lunch around 12:15 and wrap up at 4:30.
Gretchen Scheibel's talk will be:
● The Cost of Evidence-Based Interventions: The intersection of collaboration, effective treatment, and budgets (ethics CEUs)
Trina Spencer's talk’s will be:
● Humble Behaviorism: Remembering Our Roots and Humble Beginnings (ethics CEUs)
● Good for All, Essential for Some: Explicit and Systematic Language Instruction Within MTSS (general CEUs)
Dr. Trina D. Spencer, PhD, BCBA-D is a senior scientist and director of the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project at University of Kansas and holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Applied Behavioral Sciences, Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, and Special Education. Drawing from speech-language pathology, applied linguistics, education, and behavior analysis, she concentrates her efforts on the oral academic language that serves as a foundation to the reading and writing of preK to 3rd grade students, with and without disabilities. She maintains a spirited research agenda that has yielded 76 peer review publications, 182 invited presentations, $15M in external funding, and several commercialized curricula, interventions, professional development systems, and assessment tools. Her multi-tiered interventions and assessment tools are used broadly in the United States, but also internationally.
Dr. Spencer values researcher-practitioner partnerships, community engagement, and cross disciplinary collaborations to accomplish high impact and innovative applied research.
Dr. Gretchen Scheibel, PhD, OTR, BCBA is an Assistant Research Professor at Juniper Gardens Children’s Project (JGCP). Dr. Scheibel earned her PhD in Special Education with a focus on cost analysis and evidence-based practices, additionally she is dually-certified in occupational therapy and behavior analysis. Prior to pursuing her doctorate, Dr. Scheibel spent over 15 years supporting children on the autism spectrum who exhibit severe and dangerous behaviors in rural and low-resource school districts across the United States. Her research is driven by her time in the classroom to explore and overcome common barriers encountered by teachers when implementing effective interventions for students with severe and dangerous behaviors. Dr. Scheibel’s research uses using quantitative and economic evaluation research methods to target three areas:
1) identifying the conditions that promote and sustain intervention effectiveness, 2) examining the cost and feasibility of implementing effective interventions in low-resource educational environments, and 3) exploring how intervention effect and cost can influence decisions to adopt or continue the use of effective interventions.
Continuing Education Units (CEU) Policy 2026
- The Association for Maine Behavior Analysis (AMeBA) uses an electronic system to track and document participant attendance at all of its Continuing Education (CE) events. Assistance will be available at all events for participants who require support to use this system. Specific details to follow upon registration.
- A backup system will be available in the event of technical issues. The backup system will only be employed in the case of technical barriers and will not be allowed as a standard means of documenting conference attendance or for the issuing of CEU certificates to participants at AMeBA CE events.
- Participants must sign in within 10 minutes of the start of each event, and may not sign out more than 10 minutes prior to the end of each event in order to obtain credit for attendance at the event.
- In the event of a technical issue, participants who were unable to check in or out of a session must email treasurer@mainebehavioranalysis.org and supply the corresponding check-in and/or check-out code as documentation that they attended.
- Any participant complaints regarding the CE event(s) and/or related requirements must be directed to AMeBA in writing by emailing president@mainebehavioranalysis.org. If a complaint regarding a CE event cannot be resolved with AMeBA, participants may file a formal complaint with the BACB® only after attempts have been made to resolve the complaint directly with AMeBA.
Psychology CEs
The Department of Educational and School Psychology at the University of Southern Maine is recognized by the Maine Board of Examiners of Psychologists as an approved sponsor of continuing professional education activities for psychologists and psychological examiners (Provider #1024) (02-415 Rules, Chapter 8, Section 3(2)).
Cancellation Policy
Cancellations received in writing (treasurer@mainebehavioranalysis.org) by March 27, 2026, will receive a full refund, minus a $50 cancellation fee. No refunds will be provided for cancellation requests received after March 27th.
The Hilton Garden Inn, Freeport, Maine
6 BACB Learning CEUs (includes 4.5 ethics, 1.5 general)
6 contact hour certificates, Maine Psychologists & Psychological Examiners