public safety

Crowd Behavior Analysis from the Sky Aims to Prevent Tragedy

July 11, 2018 bsci21 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Computer scientists at Middlebury College are working on a way to improve public safety at large public events through computer vision algorithms that detect anomalies in crowd behavior […]

ABA Practice

The Top 10 Things Every Traveling Behaviour Analyst Needs

January 2, 2016 2

By Zainab Fazal, M.ADS, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer On today’s agenda: 1 new client you will meet for the first time, 1 client you are starting an assessment with, and 1 client you’ve been working […]

Lifestyle

Your behavior says you’re lying!

June 10, 2015 0

By Todd Ward, PhD, BCBA-D ([email protected]) Founding Editor, bSci21.org Behavior analysts have talked a little about lying. For example, Skinner (1957) regarded lying as a distorted tact. For him, lying was indicative of a certain […]

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 […]

Ivory Tower

Do theory and philosophy even matter?

March 22, 2016 1

By Naomi Homayouni and Benjamin Witts St. Cloud State University *Special thanks to Dr. Billy Baum for helpful comments on an earlier draft. Science and philosophy are closely related, both historically and currently. Consider that […]

Lifestyle

On getting your kids to use appropriate voices.

December 16, 2016 0

By Leanne Page, M.Ed., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer “Dear Behavior BFF, I have a 2 ½-year-old son and a 3-month-old daughter. My son has started whining. All the time. It’s grating on my eardrums and […]

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 […]