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.