Let me set the scene: you have a dinner party at your house with your family, including your 3 young kids, your friends, their families, and their kids. Everyone is…
There are many aspects of being a parent, some of which include watching your child learn and grow, engaging with them in games and pretend play, and experiencing them develop…
Young adults with autism or developmental disabilities often have a very long history of reinforcement of their problem behavior. This often leads to a restrictive lifestyle for their families, which…
Aubrey Daniels, the first editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management (JOBM) defines feedback as “information about performance that allows an individual to adjust his or her performance” (2016). …
Recently, there has been a rise in the popularity of clinic-based ABA therapy. Because ABA clinics are such controlled environments, it’s natural to wonder about whether children would be able…
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Becoming and practicing behavior analysis is often synonymous with a strong understanding of the technical components of behavior change procedures. Our training often emphasizes skills such as the memorization of…
For families going through the IEP process, you may be feeling a lot of emotions. Some aspects of the IEP process may make you feel confused or frustrated. One of…
What are Multiple-Step Tasks? Dressing, toileting, grooming, bathing, household chores, leisure, and cooking tasks all take multiple steps to complete. Some examples include putting on a shirt, washing your face,…
“Absolutely NO edibles!” Over my years in the ABA field, I encounter more and more families who say “I don’t want you to use edibles!” We use what is reinforcing….
We’ve all been there. The cookie aisle at the grocery store, leaving the playground before everyone else, waiting at the salon for an unwanted haircut – tantrums come hard and…
When teaching kids language skills, such as to identify objects, it helps to separate instruction into expressive and receptive. Expressive language is speaking and receptive language is understanding what others…
What is cultural competence and how do we as practitioners work towards having it? The phrase cultural competence or cultural awareness has in recent weeks become a buzzword across many…
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