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Therefore, the present exploratory sequential mixed method intervention study sought to understand (a) the knowledge, experiences, and needs of BCBAs in supporting bilingual ABA staff by conducting focus groups and interviews, (b) the development of a tailored online asynchronous professional development and measure its impact on BCBAs knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitudes related to autism, ABA, and bilingualism through a randomized waitlist control trial, and (c) how findings from the focus groups and interviews helped to develop the tailored professional development and to what extent do post- intervention social validity findings help to understand the quantitative results? 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