speaking nontechnically

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 […]

ABA Practice

The difference between great and poor behavior analysts.

July 5, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates In a recent video by Brett DiNovi & Associates, Matt Linder spoke about the differences between good and poor behavior […]

Society

ISIS and Applied Behavior Analysis

February 25, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org ISIS is the best financed group ever. That is the opinion of Matthew Levitt, director of the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington […]

Lifestyle

On the Ethics of Curiosity: Observing Behavior at the Voyeur’s Motel

May 10, 2016 0

Adrienne Fitzer, MA, BCBA Guest Author For forty minutes I was captivated by The Voyeur’s Motel , written by Gay Talese and published in the The New Yorker this past month. While the article focuses on […]

Society

Defunding Police: What behavioral science can contribute.

June 24, 2020 3

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA President, bSci21Media, LLC The Issue: Defunding Police Departments The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police was a watershed moment in the Black Lives Matter movement and for police […]

ABA Practice

How to Stop a Tantrum

January 29, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC Brett DiNovi, M.A., BCBA Brett DiNovi & Associates Tantrumming is perhaps one of the most common types of behavior seen in children. Episodes can occur in virtually any […]

Society

Law Enforcement by Positive Reinforcement in Ontario

May 27, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org 2015 has not been kind to the law enforcement community after events in Ferguson Missouri, and others, have put police departments under public scrutiny like never before. […]