zen – Behavioral Science in the 21st Century

The place before “I” – Undercutting your Deictic Relations

November 3, 2019 bsci21 4

Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA bSci21Media, LLC I cooked dinner tonight… or did I? As Dr. Scott Herbst said before on this site, “I” is just a bit of language. It only exists as […]

The Zen of Verbal Behavior: A Look at the Verbal Behavior of Zen Master Hyon Guk Sunim

September 16, 2018 bsci21 0

Angela Cathey, MA, LPC ENSO Group & bSci21Media, LLC Many traditionally trained behavior analysts initially struggle to incorporate a functional view of verbal behavior into their repertoire. Today, I will push you to be a […]

Business/OBM

Three Behaviors That Motivate Your Staff

October 26, 2015 0

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The vast majority of you lead others in one way or another — your behavioral technicians running your programs, your grad students carrying out research, the […]

ABA Practice

PECS giving you trouble? Use Precision Teaching.

July 18, 2016 7

My name is Simon Dejardin. I’m a BCBA in France, in the Paris suburbs. I supervise an ABA program for adolescents with ASD. Last November, I welcomed a 14-year-old girl named Cecilia. She has a […]

Lifestyle

A Letter to My Younger Self: Five Things I Would Have Done Differently as a Young Behavior Analyst

September 19, 2016 5

By Adam Ventura, M.S., BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer Dear Adam, I am from the future, and I have traveled back in time to give you advice and some information about your future to help you […]

Business/OBM

Is Your Organization Ready for Pay for Performance?

April 18, 2019 0

Barbara Bucklin, PhD bSci21 Contributing Writer As someone who’s studied, researched, and implemented pay-for-performance systems over the past two decades, I’m encouraged by the number of Health and Human Service agencies starting to use pay […]

ABA Practice

How parents can use noncontingent reinforcement

February 9, 2017 0

By Leanne Page, M.Ed, BCBA bSci21 Contributing Writer “Dear Behavior BFF, I’ve read several of your articles and notice a theme of always giving your child something they want as reinforcement. But as a dad, […]

Ivory Tower

Positive vs. Negative Reinforcement is Useless!

October 7, 2015 8

By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D Founding Editor, bSci21.org The distinction between positive and negative reinforcement is useless! That was the conclusion published by Baron and Galizio in The Behavior Analyst. Though Jack Michael was the first […]