how to be a better public speaker

It’s Normal to Fear Public Speaking! Seven Tips to Help You Prepare

May 19, 2017 bsci21 0

By Barbara Bucklin, PhD and Manny Rodriguez, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writers A year ago, Manny wrote an overview about presentation skills that discussed how public speaking is behavior that can be learned. In the article, How […]

Ivory Tower

Reinforcement Isn’t Real

March 13, 2015 5

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC Yep, you heard me right. Reinforcement isn’t real. Not if you are a functional contextualist. You see there are at least two dominant philosophical views in […]

Lifestyle

Behavior Change ’17 – Apps, Tech, and the Web

February 16, 2017 0

Melissa Druskis, M.S., BCBA Guest Author Fitness trackers in the form of pedometers have been around since 1965, but not until the introduction of Fitbit, Pebble, Jawbone, and others around 2010, did simple pedometers combined […]

Lifestyle

Four Prolific Writing Tips from B.F. Skinner

February 22, 2015 2

Back when I was a doctoral student at UNR, I came across an article by B.F. Skinner (1981) titled “How to Discover What you Have to Say — A Talk to Students.” In it, Skinner […]

Business/OBM

Getting Real-time Feedback on Behavior for Improved Performance

September 5, 2018 0

Angela Cathey, MA & Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates As behavior analysts, the collection and design of interventions based on data is the corner stone […]

ABA Practice

How to Get a Job with Autism: An Introduction and Resources.

April 11, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D President, bSci21Media, LLC With an unemployment rate near 80%, demand for jobs by individuals with autism is high. While jobs for those with autism and other disabilities is not unheard […]

ABA Practice

6 Guidelines for incorporating ACT into traditional ABA practice.

August 31, 2020 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA bSci21Media, LLC Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or Acceptance and Commitment Training, originated in the 1980s as an approach to well being that targets language and cognition from a functional […]