functional assessment

Win client hours with quantification and prediction.

June 27, 2018 bsci21 0

How to win friends with quantification and prediction from Chartlytics. The tides are changing. Behavior science is moving forward – becoming more efficient and effective – and YOU can easily become a part of […]

Greg Hanley discusses Function-Based Treatment on the Behavioral Observations Podcast

June 13, 2016 bsci21 1

By Matthew J. Cicoria MS, BCBA Host, The Behavioral Observations Podcast Dr. Greg Hanley returns to the Behavioral Observations Podcast, and in this episode we talk about best practices for functional analyses and function-based treatment. He […]

ABA Practice

When BACB ethical violations go unnoticed.

April 20, 2016 15

By Emily Mandel, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer About a year ago, I worked with a high schooler diagnosed with high-functioning Autism. His mother requested that the primary focus of treatment be his social skills […]

Society

bSci21 Exclusive Interview: Criss Wilhite and the Fresno State Sustainability Project

January 26, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Tell us a little about yourself. What is your background in behavior analysis? I received a Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology in 1986 from […]

Lifestyle

You Don’t Listen!

June 7, 2015 2

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer I’ve been thinking a lot, for a fairly long time, about listening. It’s something that, as behavior analysts, in which I think we’re curiously uninterested. At this point, […]

Society

BCBA Burnout is a Public Health Concern

December 9, 2020 0

Dr. Todd Ward bSci21.org Plantiveau, Dounavi, and Virues-Orega (2018) published a study in the European Journal of Behavior Analysis in which they used “job satisfaction and burnout measures to characterize a potential public health concern […]

ABA Practice

What is Pivotal Response Treatment?

February 17, 2015 7

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org If you attended the 2015 ABAI Autism Conference in Las Vegas, you heard of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), a popular and effective approach commonly used with […]

Society

Police Reward Good Behavior

March 15, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org According to NBC News, a police department in Farmington, New Hampshire is doing things a bit differently these days — rewarding good behavior with gift cards […]