flying with autism

Autism Family Escorted Off Plane

May 19, 2015 bsci21 0

By Tiffany N. Kilby, M.S., BCBA, Guest Author Founder & Director, thebehaviorstation.com On Tuesday, May 5th, a family was escorted off a United Airlines flight after an emergency landing on the way to Portland, Oregon. […]

ABA Practice

How parents can use noncontingent reinforcement

February 9, 2017 0

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer “Dear Behavior BFF, I’ve read several of your articles and notice a theme of always giving your child something they want as reinforcement. But as a dad, […]

Society

PBIS “Positive Peer Pressure” Program Changes School Culture

February 13, 2019 2

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC WSLS News in Roanoke, Virginia recently reported on a Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) program aimed to boost school attendance and academic performance across Henry County schools. One […]

ABA Practice

4 Simple Steps to Supercharge Instruction with Behavioral Fluency

May 2, 2018 0

4 simple ways behavioral fluency from Chartlytics. It’s oh-so-easy for students to immediately forget what they worked so hard to learn. Students practice, but as football coach Vince Lombardi once said, “Practice does not make […]

Business/OBM

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.

March 10, 2017 0

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 […]

Business/OBM

Three Behaviors That Motivate Your Staff

October 26, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The vast majority of you lead others in one way or another — your behavioral technicians running your programs, your grad students carrying out research, the […]

ABA Practice

Battling BCBA Burnout

March 1, 2019 0

Melissa Druskis, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer In our field, we are all aware of the high-turnover rate for direct Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapists and Registered Behavioral Technicians (RBTs). It is a reality […]