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The BCAT: A Certification Designed for ABA and Autism Treatment

June 23, 2017 bsci21 1

Todd Ward, PhD, BCBA-D (bSci21.org) Dawn Mackey (Rethink) Lauren Rivera-Whitlock, M.S. (Behavioral Intervention Certification Council) Jamie Pagliaro (Rethink) Most everyone in the field of behavior analysis is familiar with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board and […]

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The Language of Leaders

July 8, 2015 6

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer One of the recurring themes of the articles I tend to write for this site is that we live in a world constructed in language. It shapes our […]

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“Touch Your Head” or “Make Your Bed”? Staying true to the Applied dimension of ABA when creating program goals for students with profound cognitive impairment

March 6, 2016 23

By Katherine DeCotiis Wiedemann, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Nearly six months had gone by since we began Lily’s home-based ABA program, and she had not mastered a single target of a single program. Not […]

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Supporting Each Other to Reach Our Goals

September 30, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, MA, BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates The day you walk across that stage to receive your high school diploma is monumental. It represents the culmination of […]

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Understanding Behavior Functionally

July 28, 2018 0

Angela Cathey, M.A. & Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates A functional approach to understanding behavior is often difficult for non-behavior analysts to grasp. Tracking functional […]

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How to Become a Master-Level Data-Driven Decision-Making Behavior Analyst

April 19, 2018 2

How to Become a Master-Level Data-Driven Behavior Analysts from Chartlytics on Vimeo. “If you torture the data enough, it will confess to anything,” purportedly said Ronald Harry Coase, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. […]

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Quit Smoking with Applied Behavior Analysis!

March 11, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC The newest issue of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis reported on a study by Romanowich and Lamb (2015) on smoking cessation. The researchers investigated fixed […]