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How Behavior Analysts are Making Schools Safer, Healthier Places

December 15, 2015 bsci21 1

By Chelsea Wilhite, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer With our culture’s increasing awareness of bullying in schools, our nation’s dropping academic scores, and the news coverage of violence against children, I wanted to find happy […]

Lifestyle

“I” is just a bit of verbal behavior.

March 4, 2016 2

By Scott Herbst, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer …and what’s funny is that I am writing an article about rule governed behavior and psychological flexibility, will eventually challenge you to break some of your rules, and […]

ABA Practice

When “First, Then” isn’t working.

May 4, 2017 2

By Leanne Page, M.Ed., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer “I’m still waiting for the First, Then strategy to work. Every day I say “First car seat, then book. But getting my son into the car seat […]

Society

Behavioral Science and Art: Primal Musical Expression in a Rule-Governed Society

July 2, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC, Ignite STEAM Labs “I’m early”, I say to myself as I pull up to the venue. Searching for a parking spot, I park and kill 30 minutes on […]

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 […]

ABA Practice

ABA is not a prescription for Autism.

January 19, 2016 8

By Clelia Sigaud, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer In an ultimately humorous yet professionally troubling anecdote, I recently came to realize that the conceptual foundations of behaviorism and verbal behavior theory are so deeply paired with […]