ABA Inside Track

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Problem: You need to keep up with behavior analytic research, get CEs, and be entertained.  What can you do? Close your eyes, and imagine you're hanging around the ABA Inside Track Table.  What do you see? It's a host and two fabulous co-hosts! And who's that? Special guest Dr. Judah Axe! What do you hear? It's a hilarious...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube Whether you have one or 99 problems, there's got to be a better way to solve them.  Next week, we'll be joined by special guest, Dr. Judah Axe from Simmons College, to get the bottom of the problem solving mystery.  But first, Diana shares an infographic on scientific bologna, Jackie teaches us all abou...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Welcome to prompting Thunderdome where only one type of prompting can survive! Will it be the classic most-to-least prompt? The odd-sounding "no-no" prompt? Maybe least-to-most prompting will take the top prize.  All we can say is, you won't believe who wins it all! Plus, the secrets of Diana's birthday present, hot takes o...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube Let's get ready for prompting with this week's new preview episode.  Ever wonder what the best prompts around are? We get the discussion going with a comparison of most-to-least, least-to-most, simultaneous, and no-no prompts.  But before the big discussion next week, Diana stops to finally give us all...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Hey hey hey! ::cow mooing sound effect:: It's J-Dog, Dr. D, and the Rob-meister, comin' at ya with an all new episode of ABA Inside Track.   This week the zoo crew is trying to use behavior analysis to go green.  Our street team will be handing out rulers to all the campers at the state park picking up trash.  And, at the top of th...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube In honor of Earth Day, we're delving into how behavior analysis can help solve issues related to sustainability.  And while recording by candlelight might save electricity, it will take more than that to promote lasting green change.  But, before we get into the research, Rob stops the show cold by declaring hi...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher SPOILER WARNING!  FCT is superior to many other treatments.  If you want to know which treatments, you'll have to go 5 rounds with Diabolical Dr. D in the ring, suffer through Rob's snooty New England anecdotes, and share your favorite foods to eat while reading journal articles with Jackie.  Only then will you have the joy of hear...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube Next week we'll be discussing some blast from the past articles related to functional communication training (FCT) as well as a revisit with our old friend lag schedules.  But first, we thank our listeners from upstate New York and India for their Jackie-fandom and grow increasingly incensed at all those people...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Are you tired of using nothing but punishment procedures when treating stereotypy? Wishing you could use some form of reinforcement as a function-based treatment? Well, maybe you can as we discuss two research articles exploring stereotpy as reinforcement.  And, for long-time listeners, we finally uncover what crazy images Rob thin...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube If stereotypy is so fun, why can't we use it as reinforcement? Well, there are a couple big reasons and we've got the articles that explain it all.  But that's next week.  In our preview episode this week, we head back down our ethical decision-tree with another chance to practice talking with non-behaviorist c...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Fresh off our last grab bag episode , Nick Green, CEO of BehaviorFit , joins us to discuss his article on decreasing sedentary behavior, to share how behavior analysis can be used to improve our health, and to question Rob on the utility of six-pack abs.

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher It's our second ETHICS episode so gather around the ol' podcast table to learn how to disseminate behavior analysis to anyone and everyone without getting exiled from your place of employment.  Here are some things you shouldn't do: 1) flip tables in a fit of rage when anyone proposes hippotherapy 2) break-up with your boyfriend ov...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube The only thing better than sharing the amazing science of behavior analysis to the masses is learning how to do it better and netting an ethics CE in the process.  Everybody wins! Except for Jackie who has never seen Back to the Future and Diana who has never seen Aspergers R Us live and Rob who was so disappoi...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher If one were to enter the virtual world, could we really expect that person to come out the other side with great fire safety skills and a fearlessness about spiders?  Well, this week we discuss two articles that say, "Yes."  Featuring our very first call-in co-host, anecdotes galore about Rob's favorite video games, and more terrif...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube We're travelling onward into the virtual realm with articles on using virtual reality.  But before the full-length discussions, we review just what VR is, and how you can do it too.  Now including footage of Rob flying with a bunch of seagulls! And our 1000th Facebook like! Articles for next week: Bouchard, S.,...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Behavior analysis runs wild and free, no longer bound by educational research in this, the Return of the Grab Bag! Between sharing tips for what to watch on maternity leave and positing which one of your hosts is actually a ghost, we discuss research related to taking medicine on time, breaking the cycle of procrastination, and get...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube It's the Return of the Grab Bag and boy do we have a varied assortment of articles from the world of applied behavior analysis.  Can we incentivize taking medication on time? How do we avoid sitting down all day until we die? And is it true that studying is an aversive event? Join us next week for the full epis...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher It's the first full episode of the year and boy are we excited! Waaaay too excited! This week we're turning our camera onto the world to view the instructional method that is video modeling.  While many of us may know how video modeling can teach children with autism simple play skills, did you know it can be used to teach reciproc...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube We're back from break and getting ready for the first full-length episode of the year.  The topic: video modeling.  And it's not just for play skills any more! Diana and I review the research we'll be discussing and share some adorable clips of kids doing the Sally Ann test.  And since they're related to us, we...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Despite sounding like Lunchlady Doris from the Simpsons and zoning in and out of consciousness, Rob does his best to attend to Jackie and Diana's review of articles about augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).  Whether using picture exchange or a speech-generating device, there's a lot to learn about how practitioners ca...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Subscribe on YouTube On this week's preview edition, we get ready for a hearty discussion of augmentative and alternative communication or AAC.  Whether high- or low-tech, these articles get at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to communication for non-vocal individuals.  And in Errata, Diana shares a wonderful email, Jackie tel...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Recorded with warmed-over outtakes and while my kids were taking a nap after too much Christmas merriment, it's ABA Inside Track's first (annual?) blooper episode.  Relieve a whole bunch of garbage I deleted from our professional, full-length episodes and saved so I could cobble together this year-end capper.  Please very much enjo...

With the year coming to a close, we thought we'd put out a quick video wishing all of our listeners, friends, and colleagues a happy holidays and a restful start to the new year.  And by quick, I mean we made my brother film us during his holiday party before we put all the kids to bed. Also, stay tuned to the whole episode for some big news about one of our hosts.  Could Rob be getting his PhD? C...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Back from the Summer of '69, it's the Good Behavior Game! We debunk the rumors that the benefits of this classic group contingency is all hype--it totally works--and rattle off a whole bunch of replications in addition to reviewing the original article that started the craze for this behavioral vaccine.  Then, finally, the wait is...

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Subscribe on Stitcher Coming back into the public consciousness, it's the Good Behavior Game! Next week, we'll review the original 1969 article describing this amazing classroom management system as well as some more recent research into its utility.  But first: errata, Rob in a captain's hat, and the musical stylings of the Inside Track crew.  See you...