What does behavior analysis have to offer education?
My first full time job as a behavior analyst was with a public school system. On countless occasions a classroom teacher would say to me, “But you’re a behavior analyst …
Looking Outside Our Field: What We Can Learn from Neuroscience
When we are trained to practice and conduct research within an area, we can become highly specialized and often tend to limit the literature we contact. Thus, we may all …
ACT through the Lens of Baer, Wolf & Risley: A guest blog by Jonathan Tarbox
1 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Through the Lens of Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968) GUEST BLOG BY JONATHAN TARBOX, University of Southern California As the excitement about Acceptance and Commitment …
How do you like them apples … now versus later?
Imagine yourself in the following scenario … a generous person offers you the following choice: A small piece of chocolate (dark or milk chocolate … your choice!) in 365 days …
How is a plate like a hat?
Teachers and staff working with children and adults with developmental disabilities frequently participate in inservice and preservice trainings focused on agency policies and procedures. Wouldn’t it be cool if such …
Light It Up Blue
On April 2nd, #LightItUpBlue will be trending and many will wear blue to support people with autism, as we observe World Autism Awareness Day. The United Nations General Assembly will focus …
Behavior Analysis Under the Dome
1 There are nearly 330 million Americans in the United States today. In 2017, 131 million (39.8%) Americans were obese. 28 million (8.7%) had Type 2 diabetes. 523,050 (0.16%) died …
ACTing Compassionately
The purpose of this blog is to disseminate research and commentary on Relational Frame Theory (RFT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT). Both are exciting research topics for behavior analysts …
Connecting which dots?
As behavioral scientists working in the field of autism, we often like to brag about the “gold-standard treatment” that is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Yes, we have empirical evidence for …