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About TAFMEDS

Bobby Hillman

M.Ed., BCBA, LBA · Practicing behavior analyst and graduate ABA instructor

I chart for a living. As a practicing Board Certified Behavior Analyst and a licensed behavior analyst, data-based decisions are the job — and as a graduate ABA instructor, I watched semester after semester of bright students study the same way: passively, untimed, and unmeasured. They could recognize every term on a review sheet and still blank under pressure, because recognizing something slowly and knowing it fluently are different skills.

Precision teaching solved this decades ago: brief timed practice, daily, with performance charted on a Standard Celeration Chart so the learner can see their learning rate and decide from data. The classic classroom form is SAFMEDS — Say All Fast, a Minute Every Day, Shuffled — vocal responding with a partner and a stopwatch. It works. It also almost never happens for a solo student studying at 6:30 in the morning.

TAFMEDS is the typed adaptation I built for that student. Typed responding is not vocal SAFMEDS and I don't claim it is — it's the trade that makes daily solo practice real: automatic scoring on every response, no observer needed, and every timing plotted on a true Chart Book–convention celeration chart. The method carries the weight; the software just makes the method happen every day.

Everything on this site follows the same rule I hold my students to: no claims without data. You won't find invented pass rates or manufactured testimonials here — you will find the practice design, stated plainly, and a chart that tells you whether it's working for you.

BCBA®, BCaBA®, RBT®, and BACB® are registered trademarks of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board, Inc. ("BACB"). TAFMEDS is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the BACB. TAFMEDS content is original, paraphrased study material; it does not reproduce BACB examination content or task-list text.