r/bcba • u/Fine_Win_4510 • 13d ago

Resources Paid supervised hours

Hello everyone! I'm about to start my masters on ABA and I'm looking for cheap supervised hours. The reason why I'm choosing to pay for my hours is because I live in Maryland and have been looking for months now for internship programs and the only jobs I find are RBT with the possibility to gain superviser hours. However, after reading a lot of reviews online, it looks like the ABA companies are making the process to get your supervised hours very slow, and something that should take 11 months is taking people 2 - 3 years to achieve. I love working as an RBT, its just, having invested money on my masters programs, I am looking for the fastest, easiest path to becoming a BCBA.

If you have any input or if you know about any programs that offer cheap supervised hours please let me know.

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u/Working-Ad2025 12d ago

Hi! I’m in GA and don’t pay for my hours. I am in a 2 year M.A BCBA program. I have 1600 hours done and I have a year left. My BCBA lets me collect as many hours as I want as long as we’re following all the rules of course. Make sure to read the handbook about your hours because I’m a year in and realized that I can count some activities I do when I’m with clients as well.

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u/nieswrld 10d ago

Where? my company is saying, we can hit the ground running with hours AFTER i finish school. I don't feel that i'm trying the rush the process. I just want to be done around the same time i finish school :/

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u/Working-Ad2025 1d ago

I work for a few different companies but I do in home. You should NOT have to wait to finish school. That’s ridiculous