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Quit Smoking with Applied Behavior Analysis!

March 11, 2015 bsci21 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 […]

Business/OBM

Reward and Recognize Employees Like This, Not That!

October 26, 2017 4

By Barbara Bucklin, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer If you’re a business owner, manager, or supervisor, in your best attempt to reward and recognize your employees, you may unintentionally do more harm than good. Expert Organizational […]

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 […]

ABA Practice

How CentralReach can Streamline your ABA Agency: An Interview with Nikki Holway

July 25, 2017 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC I recently had the opportunity to talk with Nikki Holway, Business Development Manager at CentralReach, about their software designed to streamline operations for ABA providers. The […]

Business/OBM

Increase employee value and retention through reinforcement.

April 10, 2017 0

By Natalie Parks, PhD, BCBA-D Guest Author Employee recruitment, retention, and output have been long-standing issues with corporations of all kinds. Employee turnover is hugely costly to any company, with costs ranging anywhere from one […]

Lifestyle

How ABA Can Get You Off the Couch

January 18, 2015 5

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org If obesity doesn’t kill you, a sedentary lifestyle will. That is the message of an LA Times article discussing new research study that followed hundreds […]

Society

Gender X and Deictic Relations

January 2, 2019 5

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC New York City recently joined California, Oregon, and Washington state with a recent change in law that allows for a third gender option – simply called “X”. According […]