scientific language

How to talk ABA to the rest of the world.

February 14, 2018 bsci21 1

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Angela Cathey, M.A. ENSO Group As behavior analysts, we pride ourselves in our technical training and language. Skinner described this as the language of the experimental analysis of […]

Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: In ABA, It Can Be Hard to Do Both.

August 28, 2016 bsci21 0

By Katherine DeCotiis Wiedemann, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Last week, I totally bombed an interview, and it wasn’t because I showed up 10-minutes late in yoga pants, or because I had horrible garlic breath. […]

Ivory Tower

How Darwin and Skinner got it wrong and what it means for ABA.

February 8, 2015 4

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org In a sense, Darwin was wrong…and for that matter Skinner was too. Both men regarded biological traits as constants that affected survival and reproduction, or that […]

Society

Whatever happened to “saving the world” with ABA?

March 3, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Drs. Mark Mattaini and Molli Luke provide a provocative editorial for the newest issue of Behavior and Social Issues, titled “‘Saving the World’ with a Matrix.” […]

Ivory Tower

Behavioral Science is All Around You

December 31, 2018 4

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Behavioral science is all around you. It doesn’t “look” like anything and you don’t have to “do” anything for it to be there. Instead, at its core, it […]

Business/OBM

4 Secrets to Employee Motivation Using Behavioral Science

August 2, 2016 4

By Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA CEO, DiNovi & Associates, LLC “The opportunity to directly control outcomes-to do what you think needs to be done, rather than what you are told to do- essentially defines the […]

Society

Drones and Behavior Analysis: From Pizza Delivery to Autonomy

June 6, 2013 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org Fox News, among several other news outlets, recently reported on ongoing research by Domino’s pizza to deliver your food to your doorstep via drone technology — […]

ABA Practice

Barriers to Autism Treatment in Northern Ireland

July 9, 2019 2

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Over the past ten years, the prevalence of autism in Northern Ireland has increased by several percentage points. However, a recent article by Karola Dillenburger, Director of the […]