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There is often training that is required to be given. Byron Wine, PhD, BCBA-D 

Verbal behavior is a topic that is most associated with a clinical setting. One of the main targets for clinicians, particularly for early intervention, is teaching mands (likely related to snacks or iPads), tacts, and intraverbals. However, the concepts of verbal behavior are present in everyday interactions and impact how we communicate with others.

Join Operant Innovations for their interview with Rollins College. This week we will be speaking with Dr. Stephanie Kincaid about Rollins College on the historic campus in Winter Park, FL.

Join Operant Innovations for Part 2 of their interview with Western Michigan University. This week we will be speaking with Dr. Scott Gaynor about the Clinical Behavior Program.

Very few books are celebrated on their 50th or 60th anniversary. Dr. Henry Schlinger makes the case for why Verbal Behavior is one of those books. Skinner himself noted that “It will, I believe, prove to be my most important work” (Skinner, 1977, p. 379). The story of how this book came to be is almost as complex as the topic itself.

Behavior analysis? OBM? These are questions you or incoming students of OBM may have. In this course, Dr. Wine gives an overview of behavior analysis, what it is, some of the terminology used, how behavior is measured, and how to increase and decrease certain behaviors. These concepts can be applied to any environment, including organizations, to improve performance. 

Skills that you can develop through your graduate training or professional development that provide the foundation for professional practice.

We see this question A LOT! "What can I do with a degree in behavior analysis other than clinical work?" The answer is simple - A LOT! The process to get there can be unknown and uncertain though. Today we are talking about some related fields and how to get into them. 

Join Operant Innovations as we talk to Dr. Tamara Marder about the Post Masters Program at Johns Hopkins University and how they expanding the applications of behavior analysis to education and beyond.

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Behavior analytic principles go beyond the standard clinical and organizational behavior change. In this course, Dr. Lattal compares the traditional and behavioral definitions of wisdom, reviews the goals of behavior analysis, and discusses how to teach wisdom. These topics are then combined to define the wisdom factor and how that affects behavior analytic practice.

Applied Behavior Analysis is more than just a bag of tricks known as Discrete Trial Training, the VB-MAPP, and token systems. However, when we begin to conceptualize our science as such, we lose the fundamentals upon which we found them. We rely too heavily on them in practice, and we fail to individualize our services.

This month on Operant Innovations - Thought Leaders, we are sitting down and speaking with Dr. Scott Geller about his history shaped him into the humanistic behavioral scientist he is today and how his eclectic education lead him from the experimental analysis of behavior, to behavior-based safety, and into humanistic behaviorism.

Join Operant Innovations as they talk with Dr. Johnathan Tarbox about the Master of Science in ABA at the University of Southern California.

“The heart of behavior analysis, the heart of the mission Skinner set us on, to bring to the world the notion that the environment plays a tremendous role in the determination of behavior.”