September 2016

Human Resources for the ABA Entrepreneur

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D (bSci21Media, LLC) Dawn Mackey & Jamie Pagliaro (Rethink Behavioral Health) If you are familiar with Skinner’s writings, you know that he had big ideas for the science of behavior.  When he talked about the science,…


Dr. Pat Friman on the Behavioral Observations Podcast

By Matt Cicoria, M.S., BCBA Host, The Behavioral Observations Podcast In Session 10 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast, I speak with none other than Dr. Pat Friman. Pat is the Vice President of Behavioral Health Services at Boys Town as well as a Clinical Professor…



DiNovi & Associates Impacting The World With ABA.

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC It isn’t every day you get a chance to sit down with the CEO of a multimillion dollar company, let alone one in Applied Behavior Analysis.  This was my lucky day,…


Billing from the BCBA’s Perspective

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D (bSci21Media, LLC) Michele Robinson and Emily Roche (ABA Billing) Jamie Pagliaro (Rethink Behavioral Health) It’s Friday afternoon.  You’re about to end a long week driving hundreds of miles to supervise your caseload and conduct assessments…


Can the bedtime pass really work for me?

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer “My daughter is 3. She has never been a good sleeper. During the night she cries and yells until one of us goes in there to her. We’ve tried the okay to…



Opportunities in OBM: Addressing conflict, creativity, and motivation with RFT

By Angela J. Cathey, M.A. Guest Author Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) is booming and poised to grow exponentially. There are several fairly recent advancements in the behavior analysis of symbolic thought (RFT; Hayes, Barnes-Holmes, Roche, 2001) and technology (e.g., Natural Language…


Fighting words in ABA?

By Paul Gavoni, Ed.D Guest Author In 2006, the New York Times article What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage went viral as one of the top emailed articles of the year.  The article, a humorous piece that clearly…


State of the Clinical ABA “Industry”

By Daniel B. Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer “Study the past if you would define the future” Confucius “What is dead may never die” Iron Islander proverb It has been said we are in a golden age of behavior analysis….