Vocal Stereotypy Research: Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD)

April 8, 2014 2:14 pm Published by Abigail P. Howe, M.S., BCBA Leave your thoughts

Children with autism often need interventions to increase socially appropriate behaviors and decrease socially inappropriate ones. Stereotypic behaviors are targeted... View Article

ABA Misconceptions Part 1: “Behavior Analysts Ignore All Problem Behavior”

December 11, 2013 4:04 pm Published by Blair Jacobsen M.A., BCBA Leave your thoughts

There are many misconceptions about the use of applied behavior analysis to help change behavior. This blog series will address... View Article

Teaching Non-Vocal Learners to Imitate Sounds and Words

September 4, 2013 1:08 pm Published by Catherine Ganem M.A., BCBA Leave your thoughts

A defining feature of autism spectrum disorder is a lack of age appropriate language and communication skills. When trying to... View Article

The Positive Way to Get Rid of Bad Behaviors: Differential Reinforcement

June 5, 2013 4:40 pm Published by Kelley Prince M.A., BCBA Leave your thoughts

Simply defined, differential reinforcement is reinforcing behaviors under certain circumstances and not reinforcing them under other circumstances. Instead of specifically... View Article

What is Stereotypy? The Ins and Outs of Automatically Reinforcing Behaviors

May 29, 2013 12:32 pm Published by Kelley Prince M.A., BCBA Leave your thoughts

A Guide to the Acronyms of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

March 26, 2013 5:44 pm Published by Kelley Prince M.A., BCBA Leave your thoughts

Applied behavior analysis is commonly referred to as ABA. That’s fairly straightforward but since it seems that everything related to... View Article

Increasing Speech Sounds and Vocal Requests

March 6, 2013 5:07 pm Published by bcotbadmin Leave your thoughts

Speech Sounds

Teaching Your Child to Make Independent Requests

January 10, 2013 6:58 pm Published by bcotbadmin Leave your thoughts

If your child echoes what you say, but does not independently ask for things, you can use a fairly simple... View Article

Gaining Compliance during ABA Therapy

October 19, 2012 12:51 am Published by Kelley Prince M.A., BCBA Leave your thoughts

After a new client’s assessment is complete, it is time to start teaching him/her the skills that were identified as... View Article

Verbal Behavior Program (ABA/VB)