By Emily Mandel, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer January is now almost over, and many of us are starting to wane on our new years resolutions. You might have set a weight loss goal but couldn’t resist that piece of…
By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer and your “Behavior BFF” A mom writes: Behavior BFF, my child totally loses his cool at dinnertime. Every. Single. Day. Is there a way to make dinnertime with toddlers less miserable?? First…
By Jennifer Fisahn, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer In special education classrooms, there are a few things that teachers are short on. Time is definitely one of them! With or without it, we still have important business to take care…
By Clelia Sigaud, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer In an ultimately humorous yet professionally troubling anecdote, I recently came to realize that the conceptual foundations of behaviorism and verbal behavior theory are so deeply paired with autism in the minds of…
By Emaley McCulloch, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer What are your goals for the year? If you are like many, you have a few nebulous aims peppered with good intentions. Lacking in the mix, however, are the crucial ingredients of…
By Daniel B. Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer Sometimes people quit. In the world of ABA service providers, employee turnover seems to come with the territory. You have probably been there before, or maybe you are there now, in an…
By Emily Mandel, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Back in November, we published “You know you are a behavior analyst when…” – a tongue-in-cheek list of ways to identify a behavior analyst, and a way to poke fun at ourselves….
By Richard McManus The Fluency Factory The reach to a box of cereal, the grasp of a spoon, the strumming gesture across a guitar, the point toward a door by a character in a play. These simple gestures hide a…
By Sarah Kupferschmidt, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer More and more people are using technology for different things. Whether it be to communicate with our smartphone and/or tablet, or measure the number of steps we take on a given day…
By Chelsea Wilhite, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer During my readings I often come across interesting passages; sometimes they are motivating, sometimes insightful, and sometimes even sad. I always think I will remember the quote based on the sheer impact…