sports coaching

On using ABA to coach baseball

May 2, 2017 bsci21 0

By Melissa Druskis, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer In 1980, a behavioral coaching method for increasing motor skills was reviewed across multiple sports. This coaching method included the systematic use of verbal instructions and feedback, […]

ABA Practice

If Your Behavior Plan Isn’t Working, This Might Be Why.

May 4, 2016 10

By Katherine DeCotiis Wiedemann, M.A., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer I’m going to ask you to picture yourself in two similar situations. Here’s the first: You just landed a great job. It’s come after a string of […]

ABA Practice

Selecting and Teaching “School Survival Skills” to Elementary Students with Autism

October 5, 2015 8

By Clelia Sigaud, M.S. bSci21 Contributing Writer As a teacher to young children with autism in a self-contained public school classroom, one of my important professional responsibilities this year is to prepare my students for […]

Society

Forget Ritalin, Treat ADHD With This Instead!

June 15, 2015 2

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org As behavior analysts, we know that our behavior is occasioned as much by biological events as it is by stimuli in the external environment. B.F. Skinner […]

ABA Practice

Telehealth: ABA’s New Frontier

February 14, 2018 2

Harla B. Frank, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer That’s going to be the story for the next year or so: [digital health] moving from a curiosity, to a research tool, to an actual mainstream, accepted […]

Business/OBM

Starting your entrepreneurial path.

November 7, 2018 0

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D bSci21Media, LLC October has been a busy month for me. I have spent it traveling the U.S. giving motivational talks to behavior analysts who might have an innovative, outside the […]

ABA Practice

What is Pivotal Response Treatment?

February 17, 2015 7

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org If you attended the 2015 ABAI Autism Conference in Las Vegas, you heard of Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT), a popular and effective approach commonly used with […]