kindness is powerful

Autistic Teen Loses Weight with Kindness

November 17, 2020 bsci21 0

Dr. Todd Ward bSci21.org According to Today, kindness in the mail helped an autistic teenager lose over 75 pounds. Carson Swazey is described as a 19 year old boy with “nonverbal autism” who enjoyed going […]

ABA Practice

Billing from the BCBA’s Perspective

September 15, 2016 2

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D (bSci21Media, LLC) Michele Robinson and Emily Roche (ABA Billing) Jamie Pagliaro (Rethink Behavioral Health) It’s Friday afternoon. You’re about to end a long week driving hundreds of miles to supervise […]

Society

The Use of Respondent Conditioning in Improving Health Outcomes

February 6, 2017 0

Emily Mandel, M.S., BCBA, LABA bSci21 Contributing Writer Approximately 133 million Americans (50% of the overall population) suffer from chronic illness, which results in 7 in 10 deaths each year (Center for Disease Control and […]

Lifestyle

Find your reinforcers, and fail.

March 26, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi Brett DiNovi & Associates Behavior analysts produce what you could call miraculous results. Sure, BA’s know that there’s nothing magical about it, but miracles don’t necessarily […]

Society

Trump, Putin, and Relational Frame Theory

July 16, 2018 4

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC The world is abuzz today with news of President Trump’s recent comments during a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to CNN, the trouble started when […]

Business/OBM

The Paradox of Power and the Nature of Human Bias: A behavior analyst’s notes on Uber, Tesla, Wells Fargo, and multi-systems change processes.

March 10, 2017 0

By Angela Cathey, M.A. bSci21 Contributing Writer As a behavior analyst my attention is often drawn to cycles of behavior. Where there is a pattern, there can be prediction and change. In recent news, I […]