A Little Something Extra for Your Intraverbal Analysis
2 (and Vice Versa) Guest Blog Post by Drs. Maria Otero, Gabriel Armshaw, Alonzo Andrews, and Lee Mason Gabriel Armshaw, MS, BCBA, is a behavior analyst whose clinical work focuses …
Will the Analysis of Verbal Behavior Finally Emerge From Chomsky’s Shadow?
Skinner’s arch critic has been repudiated. It’s time to show what a behavioral alternative has to offer.
We Cannot Teach Every Sentence: Building Generative Social Repertoires Through Script Fading
2 Guest Post Written by Meral Koldas Meral Koldas, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA, is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. She earned her Ph.D. in Applied Behavior …
Why Was the Cyclist Annoyed With Me? A Behaviour Analysis of Theory of Mind
Are you, a behaviour analyst, persuaded by that explanation? I would hope not…The more interesting question is whether we can throw out the mentalistic bathwater and keep the Theory of Mind baby.
What We Talk about When We Talk about Talking
4 Blog Post Authored by Drs. Maria Otero, Gabriel Armshaw, Alonzo Andrews, and Lee Mason Dr. Maria Otero, PhD, BCBA, is a researching clinician in early intervention at Cook Children’sHospital. …
Why Wait? Using Developmental Psychology to Inform Verbal Behavior Intervention
5 Guest post by Dr. Ciobha McKeown Dr. Ciobha McKeown is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Sacramento, and director of the Infant, Toddler, and Life Skills (ITLS) Lab. …
Reasoning Machines and Mediational Theory
The evolution of AI reasoning systems toward explicit step-by-step verbal mediation, established and maintained by differential consequences, strongly supports core aspects of a mediational theory of verbal relations
Before the First Word: The Science Behind Early Language
5 Guest Post by: Maithri Sivaraman, Ph.D., BCBA Maithri Sivaraman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She studies early language acquisition in neurotypical …
World Cup Special Edition: The Beautiful Game, Magical Mands, and Divine Intercession
“Just prayed to a God that I don’t believe in.”
Lessons From My Two-Year-Old on the Power of a Language-Rich Environment
Guest Blog by Drs. Lauren Schnell-Peskin and Jessica Day Lauren Schnell-Peskin (she/her) earned her Ph.D. in ABA from Caldwell University and iscurrently an Associate Professor in the ABA programs at …