Community Guidelines

Anyone who has worked for an ABA employer as a BCBA, BCBA-D, BCaBA, or RBT and holds an active BACB credential. We verify every credential against the BACB public registry before your review counts.

A review is most useful to your peers when it is:

• Firsthand. Based on your own experience, not what you heard from others.
• Specific in kind, not in identity. "Weekly supervision was 10 minutes of email" is powerful. Naming your supervisor is not required and risks identifying you.
• Clear about what is opinion. "I felt pressure to bill more hours" is your opinion. "Billed 50 hours I didn't work" is a factual claim that belongs in an ethics complaint, not a review.
• Focused on the employer, not colleagues. Rate the organization, supervision quality, and workplace culture — not individuals by name.
• Balanced. Even reviews you are upset writing are more persuasive when they describe both what worked and what didn't.

The following will cause your review to be declined or delayed:

• Any detail about a specific client or their family. Never.
• Named individuals, or a role held by a single person (e.g., "the only BCBA-D at the Westfield clinic").
• Exact dates or month-precision tenure (use ranges like "2–3 years").
• Factual claims of illegal conduct (fraud, abuse, discrimination, HIPAA violations) without contemporaneous evidence. These belong with the appropriate licensing board, the BACB ethics line, or law enforcement — not in a review.
• Content intended to harass a former coworker or employer.
• Content submitted on behalf of, or paid for by, a competitor of the employer.
• AI-generated text, unless you disclose it.

• Your name, email, and BACB number are stored separately from your review and are not published.
• Admin access to credential data is logged. Every lookup is recorded with the admin's identity, the reason, and the time.
• Fidelity Scores are not published until an employer has received a minimum number of verified reviews, so that a single review cannot implicitly identify you.
• Real-time warnings during the review form flag language that could identify you, contain protected health information, or read as a factual accusation of illegal conduct.

What we cannot do: promise absolute anonymity. A valid court order, a police investigation with proper legal process, or a credible safety emergency can force us to produce identifying information. See our Legal Process policy for the protections we extend in those cases.

This section exists because BCBAs are understandably cautious about the BACB Ethics Code. You can write a review without violating the Code, if you follow these guidelines.

The BACB Ethics Code (2022) protects client confidentiality. It does not prohibit you from describing your employment experience: caseload, supervision, billing culture, workload, compensation transparency, and so on. Code sections addressing conflicts between professionals (e.g., disparagement of colleagues) are concerned with personal attacks on named individuals — not honest description of an organization's workplace.

Practical translation:

• Never include anything about a specific client — case details, demographics, diagnoses, caregiver names, or anything from a treatment plan.
• Frame systemic observations in terms of the organization, not a named person: "the supervision structure required skipping parent trainings" rather than "Dr. X told me to skip parent trainings."
• Distinguish your opinion from factual accusation. "I found the billing culture pressured" is opinion. "They billed for services that weren't provided" is a factual accusation — which, if true, should be reported through the channels that can investigate it.

If you believe you witnessed ethics violations, the proper venue is the BACB ethics reporting process at bacb.com, not Verified ABA. We are a review platform, not an investigative or regulatory body.

1. Your BACB credential is verified against the public registry.
2. Your review is screened automatically for the patterns described in Section 3.
3. A human reviewer looks at any review flagged by the automated screen.
4. If approved, your review contributes to the Fidelity Score and appears once the employer's review count crosses the publication threshold.
5. If we need to ask you a question before publishing, we'll reach you through the email you used to sign up. We will never share that email with anyone.

Employers may submit a dispute through our dispute form if they believe a review violates our Terms. Our review is discretionary. If a dispute raises credible concerns, we may contact the reviewer through the protected email channel for a response. Employers do not receive your identity through this process.

• To withdraw your review at any time before publication.
• To request that your published review be removed (we will consider the request in good faith; see the Moderation Policy).
• To appeal any moderation decision by replying to our notice email.
• If served with a subpoena or other legal process seeking your identity, to receive advance notice (where lawful and reasonable) so that you can assert First Amendment and anti-SLAPP defenses before we respond.

Email hello@verifiedaba.com for general questions or privacy@verifiedaba.com for privacy-specific questions. Thank you for contributing to a more transparent field.