El Autismo va en aumento — ¿Qué podemos hacer?
El Centro para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) recientemente publicó un estimado actualizado de la prevalencia del Trastorno del Espectro Autista (TEA) en los Estados Unidos (el …
Looking Outside Our Field: What We Can Learn from Medicine
Looking Outside Our Field highlights areas of science outside of behavior analysis that are of relevance for advancing behavior analytic research and improving clinical practice. In a previous post, I discussed neuroscience …
Autism on the rise — What to do?
The CDC recently released an updated prevalence estimate of ASD among the children in the United States (full report can be found here). Despite this increase in the number of individuals diagnosed, …
ABAI 2018 Convention Preview: Connecting the Dots
The 44th annual meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) will be held in San Diego, CA on May 24-28. This is an event we all looking forward …
Conference News from 4CABA
Every time I attend a conference, I come back reenergized and with more focus, eager to start a new experiment or try something new with a client. This time was …
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 …
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 …
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 …