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Wish you could do a better job keeping up with peer-reviewed journals? Why not listen to a podcast where behavior analysts discuss a variety of fascinating topics and the research related to them? Now you can spend your extra time thinking of ways to save the world with ABA.
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All organisations are fundamentally in the business of behaviour change. But how well does your organisation understand behaviour? In “The B-Word”, Deloitte’s global Behaviour First leader James Healy explores how organisations can use a better understanding of human behaviour to address some of their most pressing challenges. Featuring leading figures from social and behavioural science discussing a diverse range of topics, the B-Word is a fascinating exploration of what it means to be huma ...
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Real, human stories with practical tips for leaders who want to evolve themselves and their teams, creating an evolved culture. Dr. Laura Gallaher is an organizational psychologist who has been hired by Disney and also NASA to help transform culture. Her company, Gallaher Edge, has helped multiple small businesses grow to successful acquisition.
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Join the discussion of behavioral marketing, consumer trust, and loyalty. Clicksuasion’s marketing frameworks are founded on behavioral economic and behavioral finance principles. Learn applicable data-driven strategies to influence change, employee engagement, and human decisions.
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Episode 253 - (SUPERVISION) Setting Up Supervision Systems at Work w. Kim Heald
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This week we’ve got bona-fide ABA business owner and BCBA supervisor, Kim Heald, joining the show to discuss scaling up your supervision systems within your organization. And, if that wasn’t enough, Kim shares a new type of business behavior assessment and gives us our results. Can you guess which one scores the highest in loud-mouthed jerkitude? T…
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Episode 252 - (SUPERVISION) Planning and Running Awesome Meetings
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It’s SUPERVISION SEPTEMBER! By listening to all of our episodes this month, you’ll be able to accrue all your supervision continuing education requirements in your BCBA cycle. And, supervision talk is always a bunch of fun. We kick this month off by calling a meeting to tell everyone that your meetings are terrible and no one wants to go to them an…
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Rob and Diana are sad to end summer vacation but are beyond pumped to start Supervision September! All the episodes you need to complete your Supervision CE requirements are here including: a Supervision Book Club on “Results” by Dr. John Austin, running awesome meetings, setting up supervision for your organization (w/ ABA boss, Kim Heald), and a …
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More. Faster. Sooner. The modern world of work is all about productivity. What if the secret of increasing productivity was actually the last thing youd think of? In this episode James meets Dale Whelehan, CEO of 4 Day Week global to talk about Frederick Winslow Taylor, Josef Stalin, Richard Nixon, Pink Floyd, Sisyphus, and why less really might be…
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Episode 251 - (LISTENER CHOICE) Self-Determination in IEP Transition Planning
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As voted on by patrons, our Summer 2023 Listener Choice episode is all about working with our clients to support effective IEP services related to transition planning. Given the continuing need to support clients, parents, and educational teams in creating meaningful and rewarding adult outcomes after school ends, we take a look at ways this planni…
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Episode 1006 - (UNLOCKED) Street Data Book Club
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UNLOCKED from our Patreon page, it’s the “Street Data” 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. A…
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Bonus Episode 31 - Quality of Life (LIVE at the Thompson Center Conference 2022)
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While we enjoy a little time off in the sun, here’s the recording of our talk from the fall 2022 Thompson Center for Autism Conference on quality of life. We review the definitions, measurement systems, and meaningful ways to include QoL into your clients’ treatment goals and plans. Interested in a visual support? Feel free to have a look at our sl…
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Episode 250 - The History of Psychology and Behavior Analysis w. Dr. Mirari Elcoro
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To celebrate our 250th episode, we wanted to take a look back—-WAAAAAY back—into the history of behavior analysis. To help us delve into the dusty storage closets of the past, Dr. Mirari Elcoro joins us to examine a less-known chapter from Dr. Murray Sidman’s career when behavior analysis and neuroscience teamed up. Then we review one way to learn …
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Rob’s running the show solo this month as we head into the dog days of summer. Enjoy our two regular episodes including a history of behavior analysis with Dr. Mirari Elcoro and our listener-selected episode on client self-determination in transition planning. Then, while we’re enjoying a little time off, we’ll be unlocking last year’s book club di…
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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! Are you mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore enough to move out to the country to a semi-anarcho-communist society where the prinicples of…
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Episode 249 - DRA Minus EXT Equals Promising Treatment
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DRA treatments are probably one of our all-time favorites when it comes to supporting clients with challenging behavior. If it weren’t for that darn extinction piece, it’d probably be an all-time favorite for everyone. So, what if we kept the DRA and ditched the extinction component? This week we find out. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING…
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Episode 248 -Delay Discounting w. Dr. Amy Odum
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While choosing smaller-sooner rather than larger-later may be a common preference, is this a factor of our learning history, our lifetime development, or our genetic expression? This week, Dr. Amy Odum stops by to review how the study of delay discounting can support better understanding of socially-relevant problems like gambling and addiction in …
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Episode 247 - Feeding Selectivity w. Dr. Holly Gover
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There’s a big difference between fear of broccoli and refusal of vegetables when observing young children’s general food pickiness. And while many treatments are available for severe food refusal, what’s a parent to do for less severe but challenging food selectivity? This week Dr. Holly Gover joins us to talk about treatments for increasing food a…
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How can organisations use experiments to get better outcomes? What role does behavioural science play in the fight against climate change? What can we learn about human nature from the movie Don't Look Up? Experimental Economist Christina Gravert joins James to discuss the benefits of trial and error and how behavioural interventions can help in th…
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Summer just keeps heating up and we've got plenty of fireworks bursting out of your ol' podcatcher. We're celebrating a month full of Wednesdays with a month full of episodes featuring special guests like Dr. Holly Gover and Dr. Amy Odum to dig deep into the world of feeding selectivity treatment and delay discounting. Then we gather round the micr…
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Episode 246 - Trans-Affirming Care w/ Worner Leland
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With states in the US striking down trans-affirming care left and right, we were so happy to welcome back returning guest, Worner Leland, to discuss what behavior analysts can do in both their practice and more globally to support TGNC clients and their rights. We review a self-assessment tool for reflecting on ones current practice and targets for…
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Rapport building is one of those terms that we think we know it when we see it and agree should be a part of our client-therapist interactions. But when you think about it for a minute, do we really know how to “rapport”? This week we review some research looking to put a little more specificity into building and measuring effective creation of rap…
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Episode 244 - (LIVE w/ BABAT) From ABA Student to ABA Professional
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LIVE with BABAT (and at Regis College)! It’s ABA Inside Track! Yes, we actually went somewhere thanks to BABAT and had the opportunity to share our old person tips for ABA students or young professionals on how to move into the role of clinician. We look at this shift in perspective based on your three most important relationships: Your mentor, you…
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Do the 5 Stages of Grief really apply to organisations? Is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator just a work horoscope? How effective is corporate training? And what can Bob Geldof teach us about strategy? James talks all things organisational change with author and management myth-slayer, Paul Gibbons.By James Healy
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Summer is coming up fast, and we've only got a few minutes to tell you about all our upcoming episodes before Jackie's new puppy has to get to training class. First up, our live episode at Regis College for BABAT hits the airwaves (did you see our video on Patreon?) on the transition from student to practitioner. Then we examine some of the variabl…
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Episode 243 - Research Applications in DEI w. Dr. Sarah Lechago
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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 onli…
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Episode 1005 - (UNLOCKED) The Nurture Effect Book Club
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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…
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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 …
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Episode 241 - Behavior Assessments You Didn't Know Existed
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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 assessm…
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How many Facebook friends can you have? Do friends have benefits? What's the point of gossip? What does an increasingly globalised, virtual world mean for human relationships at work and for wellbeing? In this episode James is joined by Evolutionary Psychologist Robin Dunbar to discuss the profound influence of our relationships on human evolution …
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Episode 240 - Synchronous Reinforcement w/ Dr. Claudia Dozier
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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 …
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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 La…
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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…
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Episode 239 - Behavioral Instruction in Higher Education w/ Dr. Kendra Guinness
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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 th…
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What can HR learn from advertising? What do Jesus and Bob Dylan have in common? Why are AI speed cameras a bad idea? And why are mediocre statisticians so dangerous? James is joined by the legendary Rory Sutherland for an unmissable discussion on a huge range of topics.By James Healy
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Episode 238 - Moving Away from Edible Reinforcement
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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 sellin…
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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., & Eikeset…
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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 sub…
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Episode 236 - Assent and Self-Determination w/ Dr. Haley Steinhauser + Alex Kishbaugh
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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 Steinhaus…
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Episode 235 - (The Lack of) Ethics and Conversion Therapy w/ Alan Haberman (LIVE) (ETHICS)
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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 expres…
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Episode 234 - Idiosyncratic Functional Analyses
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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 y…
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Episode 233 - Developing a Standard Set for Autism Outcomes w. Dr. Ivy Chong
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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 o…
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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 articl…
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Episode 1004 - (UNLOCKED) Look Me In the Eye Book Club
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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 goo…
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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 b…
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Episode 231 - Emotional Behavioral Disorder Treatment w/ Dr. Johanna Staubitz
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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 …
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ABA Inside Track-EP 230-Precision Teaching
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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 su…
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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 abou…
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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 trea…
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Bonus Episode 30 - An Interview with Dr. Shala Ala'i-Rosales + Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
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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 “h…
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Episode 229 - Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions w/ Dr. Jamie Hughes-Lika
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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, a…
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Episode 228 - Visual Supports (LIVE)
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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 …
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Episode 227 - Behavioral Gerontology Revisted w/ Dr. Maranda Trahan + Amanda Ripley
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We’re returning to the topic of behavioral geronotolgy and this time, we’ve brought in the experts, Dr. Maranda Trahan and Amanda Ripley. They talk with us about the history of behavioral interventions in geriatrics, where the field is going, and how you can become prepared to support society’s rapidly aging population. Plus, why getting old is so …
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2023 begins with some belated gifts, not to mention a plethora of episodes and Inside Track goings-on. This month we’ll be talking with Dr. Maranda Trahan and Amanda Ripley about gerontology, Dr. Jamie Hughes-Lika about NDBIs, and ourselves about visual supports (including Rob’s favorite research story of 2022). Interested in joining the Winter Boo…
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Bonus Episode 29 - The Year in ABA (2022) w/ Matt Cicoria (feat. Alan Haberman)
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Well, another year has come to a close, and the crew is back with podcast friend, Matt Cicoria from Behavioral Observations, to discuss what just happened. We review some losses to the field, trends in research, and take questions from the audience to keep us on our toes. And, for the first time in forever, I think we all agree: 2022 WASN’T the wor…
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