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PBIS “Positive Peer Pressure” Program Changes School Culture

February 13, 2019 bsci21 2

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC WSLS News in Roanoke, Virginia recently reported on a Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) program aimed to boost school attendance and academic performance across Henry County schools. One […]

ABA Practice

6 Ways to Improve your Delivery of Non-Contingent Reinforcement

February 24, 2015 1

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Non-Contingent Reinforcement (NCR) can be a powerful technique of behavior change. The crucial element that makes NCR effective is that it breaks, or dilutes, the contingency […]

ABA Practice

The ABCs of Caregiver Attendance Behavior

June 5, 2017 1

By Daniel B. Sundberg, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer Most people with experience providing clinical ABA services to children with developmental disabilities would agree that caregivers play a critical role in the overall success in the treatment […]

Business/OBM

Three Behaviors That Motivate Your Staff

October 26, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The vast majority of you lead others in one way or another — your behavioral technicians running your programs, your grad students carrying out research, the […]

Business/OBM

Defused feedback is behavioral feedback.

October 31, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates Open up any issue of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management and you are bound to find performance feedback to […]

Ivory Tower

Radical Behaviorism and Buddhism

October 11, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org If you haven’t yet noticed, religion is a recurring topic here at bSci21. In previous articles, we have explored the behavioral effects of prayer, ascetic practices, […]

ABA Practice

Stimulus Preference Is Not Stimulus Function

June 9, 2017 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 […]