March 2017

March 31, 2017

What to do when your child is screaming in public

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer “Anytime we take our toddler somewhere new, she freaks out. She cries and tantrums until we end up leaving. She even does this when we take her fun places just for her…

March 28, 2017

Building the Best Therapy Team

By Melissa Druskis, M.S., BCBA Guest Author About a year ago, I was attending an ABA conference and I overheard the conversation of two BCBAs in front of me while we were packed together waiting to enter a presentation. They were…

March 27, 2017

Finding the MBA in ABA: Why Entrepreneurship is in our DNA

By Emaley McCulloch, M.Ed., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer The first time I created a business plan and presented it to an investor, he laughed. He gave it back to me covered in red ink. “What am I thinking?” I asked…

March 23, 2017

Training Rats to Save Lives

By Emily Mandel, M.S., BCBA, LABA bSci21 Contributing Writer An NGO based out of Belgium is responsible for saving thousands of lives around the world. Apopo uses behavior training strategies to teach African Giant-Pouched Rats to perform several vital tasks,…

March 21, 2017

Mitigating Risk in your ABA Agency

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Daniel Law, ARM, CRIS The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Dawn Mackey & Jamie Pagliaro Rethink Behavioral Health Your ABA agency faces various risks on a daily basis. Insurance companies and attorneys like to…

March 14, 2017

Plagiarism: A Behavioral Perspective

By Harla B. Frank, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer And, after all, what is originality? It is merely undetected plagiarism . . . . Herbert Paul Herbert Paul may have made the point that there is “nothing new under the…

March 10, 2017

The Paradox of Power and the Nature of Human Bias: A behavior analyst’s notes on Uber, Tesla, Wells Fargo, and multi-systems change processes.

By Angela Cathey, M.A. bSci21 Contributing Writer As a behavior analyst my attention is often drawn to cycles of behavior. Where there is a pattern, there can be prediction and change. In recent news, I have seen repeated criticisms of…

March 5, 2017

Giving Your Teenager a Way Out: Teach Them The XPlan

By Sarah Kupferschmidt, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer I recently read about something developed by Bert Fulks called the XPlan. By now you may also have heard about the XPlan and if you haven’t you can read more about it…

March 2, 2017

Tools of the OBM Trade: Measure to Evaluate Solutions

By Barbara Bucklin, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer This is the third in a three-part series called ‘Tools of the OBM Trade,’ intended to give you practical advice, examples, tools, and resources to hone your OBM skills. The first two articles…