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Lessons for Talking About Behavior Analysis, from ABAI 2016

June 28, 2016 bsci21 5

By Daniel B. Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer In case you missed it, the annual conference for behavior analysis recently occurred, which to me is like a wonderful, really nerdy music festival. Spending a large […]

Business/OBM

Entrepreneurial Hustle: 5 Tips for Starting (and Running) a Business in ABA Therapy

August 3, 2016 5

By Adam Ventura, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Starting a business is a scary proposition and often evokes overwhelming questions like: Am I ready for this? Can I afford this? What if I fail? These […]

Business/OBM

Reward and Recognize Employees Like This, Not That!

October 26, 2017 4

By Barbara Bucklin, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer If you’re a business owner, manager, or supervisor, in your best attempt to reward and recognize your employees, you may unintentionally do more harm than good. Expert Organizational […]

ABA Practice

Sweat Predicts Aggression in Teens with Autism

October 12, 2019 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA bSci21Media, LLC ScienceDaily recently reported on research our of the University of Missouri-Columbia, on the extent to which the sweat response predicts aggression in teens diagnosed with Autism. Bradley […]

ABA Practice

ABA is not a prescription for Autism.

January 19, 2016 8

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 […]

Lifestyle

Challenged? Try Behavioral Momentum!

April 3, 2015 0

by Manny Rodriguez, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer manny@abatechnologies.com Have you ever faced a challenge that just seemed unbelievably difficult to overcome? Do you have a colleague, friend, student, or child that is facing such […]

ABA Practice

Abduction Prevention in Children with Autism

January 24, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org A recent study by Bergstrom, Najdowski, and Tarbox (2014) in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis successfully taught children with autism how to respond to strangers’ […]