By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org In a recent bSci21 article titled 20 Performance Hacks: A Cheat Sheet for Behavior Change, the authors provided a detailed overview of a popular assessment tool in Organizational Behavior Management called…
By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Noncompliance means exactly what it says — refusal to comply with a request. As you might expect, noncompliance is fairly common among children and teens. With children with autism, it may…
By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org In a previous article titled “Behavior Detection Officers: Where They Are and What They Are Doing,” we discussed the controversial program by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) called SPOT (Screening Passengers by…
Joshua Lipschultz, M.A., BCBA, guest author Manny Rodriguez, M.S., bsci21 contributing writer Stop me if you’ve heard this before… “Why are my employees not doing what they are supposed to do? I’m paying them to work, so why don’t they…
By Scott Herbst, PhD ([email protected]) bSci21 Contributing Writer In 1982, Charlie Catania, Byron Matthews, and Eliot Shimoff published a study looking at the effects of shaping verbal behavior. What they did was set up a multiple schedule. If you’re not familiar (or have…
By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Entrepreneur.com recently ran an article outlining ten behaviors of smart people. The list is actually very much in-line with a behavioral science view, which will be of interest to bSci21 readers. The…
By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC Being a parent is a full-time job. Being a parent of a child diagnosed with autism can mean working overtime. Dr. Denise Kerth, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and coordinator of…
By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC Everyone has to sell their ideas every day. The term “sell” doesn’t necessarily imply money, but it does imply persuasion — convincing people that your way is the right way. You…
By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC At first glance, the term “self-management” sounds antithetical to a science of behavior. We usually talk about behavior as a function of the environment…that a reference to the individual as a…
By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Over the weekend, Behavioral Science in the 21st Century underwent a facelift. The site is now hosted on Wordpress.org with a brand new News Style template that will improve the user experience….