future

A Letter to My Younger Self: Five Things I Would Have Done Differently as a Young Behavior Analyst

September 19, 2016 bsci21 5

By Adam Ventura, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Dear Adam, I am from the future, and I have traveled back in time to give you advice and some information about your future to help you […]

ABA Practice

A Novel Way to Spread Behavior Analysis

March 12, 2015 2

by Brohavior bSci21.org contributing group Science is an endeavor aimed at increasing our contact with events in the natural world in a way that allows us to more effectively interact with those events (Skinner, 1953; […]

Society

Parents Treat Disabilities with Marijuana

August 6, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Bill Laitner of the Livingston Daily discussed a growing treatment among parents of children with disabilities — marijuana. Bill notes that under Michigan state law, medical marijuana is […]

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SGOs, Teacher Evaluation, and Students with Severe Disabilities – Tips for Teachers

June 15, 2016 1

By Jennifer Fisahn, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer As public schools wrap up another year and head into summer, teachers will likely be heading into a summative evaluation conference with their building administrator. Discussion will […]

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In ABA, First Impressions Matter

July 3, 2017 0

By Harla B. Frank, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Two things remain irretrievable, time and a first impression. Cynthia Ozick Why is it so difficult to get society “on board” regarding the value of Applied […]

Society

An Incentive System to Reduce Smoking During Pregnancy

July 22, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org A team of UK researchers lead by David Tappin recently published a Randomized Controlled Trial in the BMJ evaluating the effectiveness of financial incentives in a smoking cessation […]

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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. […]