government shutdown

The Government Shutdown: A real-life reversal design.

January 18, 2019 bsci21 2

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC In the real world, our behavior is nested within systems – behavioral systems comprised of the actions of millions of people around the globe which generate aggregate outcomes […]

ABA Practice

The Top 4 Insurance Policies for ABA Providers

June 2, 2017 2

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D (bSci21.org) Daniel Law (The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers) Dawn Mackey & Jamie Pagliaro (Rethink) ABA agencies face an array of unique liability risks due to the nature of the services […]

Society

How Relational Frame Theory Is Giving “Brain Training” Apps Competition

August 12, 2015 3

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Bryan Roche, PhD, co-author of the seminal book Relational Frame Theory: A Post-Skinnerian Account of Human Language and Cognition, wrote an article recently for The Conversation, criticizing […]

Lifestyle

How To Get Your Child To Fall Asleep

August 25, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org In a recent Huffington Post article, Sarah Kupferschmidt, M.A., BCBA provided four simple tips for parents struggling to get their kids to sleep. When appropriate, examples from […]

Society

TSA’s Secret List of Behaviors

April 27, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org In a previous article titled “Behavior Detection Officers: Where They Are and What They Are Doing,” we discussed the controversial program by the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) […]

ABA Practice

The Effects of Priming Beyond ABA Therapy

June 28, 2017 3

By Melissa Druskis, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Priming is a useful antecedent strategy in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). We use it to prepare our clients for their day using a visual […]

Ivory Tower

Positive vs. Negative Reinforcement is Useless!

October 7, 2015 8

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The distinction between positive and negative reinforcement is useless! That was the conclusion published by Baron and Galizio in The Behavior Analyst. Though Jack Michael was the first […]