how your words affect other people

Stimulus Preference Is Not Stimulus Function

June 9, 2017 bsci21 0

By Shelley McLean, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer The phrase, “It is what it is,” seems to be increasingly popular in daily conversation, which may not be surprising, since it seems to apply in a […]

Business/OBM

How do I transition to an OBM career?

September 10, 2018 0

Barbara Bucklin, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer People often contact me with a question like this– “I’ve been a behavior consultant working with ASD clients for my entire career. I know ABA and now I’m starting […]

ABA Practice

Top 10 Tips for taking the RBT exam

June 13, 2019 0

Kate Grimes, BCBA, MSc SLT Guest Author Taking the Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) exam can be a daunting thought. There is a lot of content to cover in the task list. The language used in […]

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 […]

ABA Practice

The Four-Term Contingency of Advocacy for Children with Special Needs

March 14, 2018 2

Meghan Cave, M.Ed, BCBA Justyna Balzar, M.Ed, BCBA Guest Authors In keeping with our practice, we begin this article in true behavior analyst fashion by providing you, the reader, with an operational definition of the […]

ABA Practice

The difference between great and poor behavior analysts.

July 5, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates In a recent video by Brett DiNovi & Associates, Matt Linder spoke about the differences between good and poor behavior […]

Lifestyle

The Speaker Doesn’t Matter: What Research in Verbal Behavior Can Tell Us About Effective Communication

April 21, 2015 0

By Scott Herbst, PhD (scottaherbst@yahoo.com) bSci21 Contributing Writer In 1982, Charlie Catania, Byron Matthews, and Eliot Shimoff published a study looking at the effects of shaping verbal behavior. What they did was set up a multiple schedule. If […]