ABA Inside Track

We've enjoyed reading so many great publications looking at diversity and equity in behavior analysis. But, at some point, discussion and think pieces need to turn into application. So, this week, we're excited to have third-time guest, Dr. Sarah Lechago, discuss the ongoing work of her and her students at the BADIE Lab. We talk gender-bias in online communication, training behavior analysts to wo...

UNLOCKED from our Patreon page , it's "The Nurture Effect" Book Club! Interested in more Book Clubs? Want to vote on what we read next? Feeling FOMO at getting this a full year late? Wish your 2 CEs for listening to the episode were FREE??? Join us on Patreon to get all of our episodes a week early, access to these bonus episodes, plus other goodies. Who's ready to save the world with behavior ana...

Seven years of podcasting and we've never actually sat down to discuss how to teach manding. This week, we make up for lost time by pulling from a variety of mand training research quandrants to see what's new to up our mand game. We've got mand assessments, manding with speech generating devices, and the ombudsmand (a term Rob has refused to stop using). This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING...

While BCBAs are all about identifying the functions of behavior, that doesn't mean that we have a monopoly on the subject. This week, we review how related fields have been addressing problem behaviors that many behavior analysts haven't even dreamed of: Non-suicidal self-injury and an update to assessing school avoidance problems. Do these assessments get the job done? Or are we missing an opport...

Contingent reinforcement is great and all. But what if I could have the reinforcement delivered at the same time as my target behavior? Despite having been described for some time, very little has been done to explore the potential use of synchronous reinforcement. Fortunately, Dr. Claudia Dozier joins us this week to get this new line of research up to speed by discussing two of her recent public...

We're coming around the bend and heading into summer, but, before that, we've got too many episodes to count without using all of your fingers. Special guests Dr. Claudia Dozier and Dr. Sarah Lechago will be joining us to talk about applications of synchronous reinforcement and research on diversity, equity, and inclusion coming out of the BADIE Lab . In between those discussions we look at a vari...

Enjoy a short preview of our latest full-length Book Club episode.  Want to hear the whole thing and get 2 CEs for free? Subscribe to our Patreon today at the premium $10+ levels for that plus other bonuses! You'd think living in such a big-data obsessed world, that behavior analysts would be enjoying some of the most fact-filled, objective times of their lives. Unfortunately, more data means more...

does this form of college course actually educate anyone? This week Dr. Kendra Guinness joins us to discuss the past, present, and future of behavioral instruction in teaching college courses. We review some of the classic forms of personalized systems of instruction before looking at how technology is (or perhaps isn't) pushing these tools into the classroom...and why everyone might not be excite...

While we all love a good snack, and we can all agree the we'd do almost anything for a Klondike bar, there's more to life than food. So why do behavior analysts get stuck on using edibles as the be all and end all of reinforcement in behavior acquisition? This week, we take a look at the research to see if edible reinforcers really should be selling like hotcakes or if there's more to reinforcemen...

You know what is behavior analysis....and what is pseudoscience. You know what is Inside Track...and what is outside track. You know what is grab bag...and what is a single topic episode. Now, forget all you know...or think you know. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Gale, C.M., Eikeseth, S., & Eikeseth, F.F. (2023). Effects of enthusastic and non-ent...

So the worst season is upon us, but we're still raring to podcast about behavior analysis. This month in between gardening and umbrella-buying, we're planning a good ol' bevy of discussions on topics such as moving away from edible reinforcement in programming and behavioral instruction with special guest, Dr. Kendra Guinness, plus (for Patreon subscribers ) our whole discussion of "Calling Bullsh...

When providing services, clinicians spend so much time complaining that our clients don't what we tell them fast enough that we often find ourselves tracking "non-compliance" as a beahvior of change. But what if instead of seeing "non-compliance" as a problem behavior, we thought of it as a removal of treatment assent? This week Dr. Haley Steinhauser and Alex Kishbaugh join us to discuss the impor...

As a follow up to Episode 219 , we continue our discussion of the harms of conversion therapy by behavior analysis in the 1970s by covering the remaining research articles published in JABA on the subject. Bringing his ever-detailed additional context is Book Club Guy, Alan Haberman, who helps us look at whether this research deserves its own expressions of concern (or is just inappropriate and gr...

Did you ever have one of those weird funtional analyses? You know, the one where all the problem behavior happens in the control condition or responding remains strangely variable during the escape condition even though the client's teacher swears he tantrums every single time she presents any work? This week we seek answers as to what to do when your FA results look like the world's most volatile...

While behavior analysts love to collect data to assess whether or not a client is reaching a specific target goal, have you ever stoped to wonder what information would need to be collected to determine whether or not specific services are "working"? Well, wonder less because our special guest, Dr. Ivy Chong, shares stories from her time as chair of the ICHOM team developing a standard set to meas...

Break out your old-timey woolen bathing suit because you'll need to cool off after a jumbo month of new episodes. We've got guests to fill out the whole month including Dr. Ivy Chong discussing the process of developing a means of measuring outcomes of health care for autism treatment, Dr. Haley Steinhauser and Alex Kishbaugh reviewing their article reviewing rethinking compliance to better promot...

UNLOCKED from our Patreon page , it's the "Look Me In the Eye" Book Club! Interested in more Book Clubs? Want to vote on what we read next? Feeling FOMO at getting this a full year late? Wish your 2 CEs for listening to the episode were FREE??? Join us on Patreon to get all of our episodes a week early, access to these bonus episodes, plus other goodies. It's been nearly a year since we came toget...

When one of our listeners wrote in to ask about an episode on perseveration, we realized that we'd never directly discussed one of the original markers described in diagnosing Asperger's syndrome. And boy were we shocked and mildly appalled at what we found! This week, we reflect on exactly what perseverative behavior really is, whether it should be categorized as a problem behavior at all, and if...

Despite poor long-term outcomes, effective treatments for emotional behavioral disorder seem just out of reach. But, this week, we're especially jazzed to have Dr. Johanna Staubitz join us to review some of the more promising technologies being explored today. From enhanced-choice SBT to more classic self-control training, we're on the edge of our seats discussing the pros, cons, and everything in...

Like us, did you think precision teaching was all about the actual teaching? It's about the measurement, man! Once we get that figured out, we take a tour of precision teaching in the recent literature from classrooms to college students to consultation through telehealth. Plus, we try to come to terms with standard celeration charts (and mostly succeed). This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING...

Enjoy a short preview of our latest full-length Book Club episode.  Want to hear the whole thing and get 2 CEs for free? Subscribe to our Patreon today at the premium $10+ levels for that plus other bonuses! We're curling up with a good book this winter for our latest Book Club. And since the winter is a good time for reflection, we're thinking about what it means to be a parent and a supporter of...

Our town may have called a snow day, but that won't stop us from getting out this month's preview episode! First, we'll be discussing a listener request on precision teaching before welcoming Dr. Johanna Staubitz to the program to review her work with students with emotional/behavioral disorders. Finally, we turn our sights on the analysis and treatment of perseverative verbal topics to wrap up. A...

We were very honored to have both of the authors of "Between Now and Dreams" join us to discuss their new book for parents of autistic children. We chat about the different perspectives both Dr. Ala'i-Rosales and Ms. Heinkel-Wolfe bring to the topic, their goals in writing a book for parents (but also for clinicians), and taking the "how" out of "how-to" to create something very different and sore...

This week we welcome back the fabulous Dr. Jamie Hughes-Lika to teach us how to correctly pronounce naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions. Once that's out of the way Dr. Hughes-Lika gets into the nitty-gritty of what makes an NDBI like the Early Start Denver Model, how it is (and isn't) the same as standard behavioral interventions, and what research has to say about the benefits of...

Coming to you from our recording studio, it's ABA Inside Track's LIVE Fall (Winter?) episode. And this time, our listeners on Patreon voted for us to discuss visual supports in treatment. In order to break down such a broad category of interventions, we found articles capturing some of the key areas of research including: Social skills! Vocational skills! Independent living skills! We also chat ab...