Tag: aba therapy
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Papercuts.
What Planned Ignoring Does and Why We Shouldn’t Get Comfortable With It It hurts my feelings to be ignored. She said it. In her full five year old boldness. And I understood it. I quickly got it. It gave me pause and moved me to think about how ignoring (planned or unplanned) is dismissive of…
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For The Sake of Human Dignity
Cultivating Care Within Problem Behavior While Serving People For the last few months, my family has had to make some really tough medical decisions with and for a beloved family member. Like many people, we are faced with caring for ourselves, our children, and loved ones at different points in their lives. It’s made me…
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Lessons from #Chopped
What Foodnetwork TV has taught me about Corrective Feedback, Using my words, and the importance of being a Supervisor and Supervisee. Chopped surprised me. I thought it would be about food. This show has given lessons in feedback (giving and receiving) and, how at any moment, everyone should be ready to learn and level up.…
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The Shiny New Toy
…and why behavior science practice requires more I recently took my daughter out on a coveted target trip…while an errand for me, it was a big deal for her. She was searching for a new doll. And being a toy aficionado, I know that the best dolls, may not be found at Target. But this…
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If You’re Private Pay, Rethink your Pricing Structure…NOW.
I see many colleagues in speech or even learning specialists discuss being private pay and the woes in finding clients. They also discuss the ease in documentation. While, I am in a group who thinks that documentation standards should be adhered to no matter private pay or third party reimbursement, I do believe that pricing…
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Disseminating the Science to Eradicate Social Injustices
Why the Science of ABA Doesn’t Reach and What We Should Do About It Sounds serious doesn’t it? Sounds like we are really about to make an impact. Sounds smart?!? There are so many good initiatives in our field that don’t have legs. I liken it to Preaching to The choir. The problem is that…
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Reprioritizing Your Priorities as a Clinical Leader
For women…women clinical leaders who do too much…who are racing to do the next…who hold up the banner of collaboration not competition but feel race to show up…the women who demonstrate the need to prove their presence in the ever changing populous of ABA and other clinical leaders….I will impart to you the best advise…
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The Professional Divide in Telehealth
The lack of reaching across the aisle and acknowledging that the knowledge being sought was already, and has been present for some time. It was (is) in a different group.
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Inside – Outside. Managing Your ABA Practice and Staff in an Instagram World
What if, as a boss, your client is your staff member? Then would the concepts of behavior shaping, instructional control, consequence and antecedent interventions, motivating operants apply? If your answer is Yes, keep reading. Managing. Management. These are real words with real meaning that require real time and responsibility. In an age of memes of…
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Managing Weariness in Clinical Leadership
When The Feeling of TOO MUCH visits and Stays a While A friend of mine told me I was ‘Managing Weariness’ as she responded to my Voxer message to her. In retrospect, maybe it was an SOS call on my part. But she responded and said “Landria like so many women (of color) you are…
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