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This podcast describes the content in Chapter 6 The Benefits of Learning from Experts and Self-Managing. The content covers the importance of teaching trainees and supervisees the skills needed to take an active role in managing their professional development throughout their career.

Lawyers frequently must become knowledgeable about science and medicine to present scientific evidence in the courtroom. In this course, join Mr. Kodsi as he discusses the laws surrounding health benefits for children with autism in the state of Florida. This course aims to discuss what Florida health benefits were like prior to the year 2008. Subsequently, Mr. Kodsi then talks about the significance of several cases that have led to the development of present-day Florida laws regarding health benefits for individuals with autism. 

Perhaps you work in a clinical setting, where you have provided reinforcement to a client for an appropriate behavior consistently in a group setting. Eventually, another client consistently included in the group begins to emit the same behavior in response to the client receiving reinforcement.

What behaviors to reinforce are easier to spot in a 5S workplace? Michael McCarthy, MEd 

“You can develop a highly effective treatment that works beautifully in a well-controlled space, but if that intervention is not practical and is not something that people are willing to do, it simply will not be adopted.”  Iser G. DeLeon, PhD, BCBA-D Abstract 

It’s not the size of the reinforcer that matters. It’s the precision with which it’s programmed that’s more relevant, the contingency of it. Saul Axelrod, PhD

Along with its identification as one of the core deficits in children diagnosed with autism, often described as lacking in symbolic qualities and flexibility, Nancy and Melissa developed PlayTubs™ to increase appropriate independent and sociodramatic play skills in children with autism and other developmental or language delays.

“For a lot of the populations that we work with, it is difficult to extract very clear, very useful information on what sort of things might function as reinforcement for them.” Dr. Iser DeLeon, PhD, BCBA Abstract 

How many times have you felt the need for better assessing staff or being fairly assessed? Have your expectations always been clearly stated at first? Do leaders have all the right tools to do so? Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) might have some answers. Dr. Byron Wine describes the basis of OBM, its impact on our daily lives, and how to better understand and measure it.

“Reinforcement is probably the most important concept to understand if we’re going to understand how to change someone’s behavior.”  Meagan Gregory, PhD, BCBA

So, you are a behavior analyst, and you want to start your own business, but you have limited repertoire. No worries! In this course, join Craig Onstott as he guides you through what it means to be a successful entrepreneur through effective management, marketing strategies, financial assessments, and most importantly, understanding your options on the kinds of corporations out there.

“A lot of people get queasy when thinking about this; we’re considering an individual with an established set of preferences and related utility for reinforcers associated with those preferences, and then we want to start manipulating those preferences. Well, some people think that’s not a good idea—preferences are what preferences are.”