Chirping with ABA Owls

Hello Hello!

For today’s episode, we will be discussing Teaching Children with Autism to Mind Read, by Patricia Howlin, Simon Baron-Cohen and Julie Hadwin.

If you would like to teach emotions to a learner, this book is a good guide to read.

We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email ([email protected]) or through our website (www.abaowls.com)

Happy Holidays and see you next year!

A good Monday to you all!

 For our December episode we have decided to dive back into our Training Staff series. We will be discussing how to use ABA to maintain staff skills.

We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email ([email protected]) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).

Thank you so much for listening!

Hello all of you behaviour enthusiasts!

Let’s wrap up another month with a study done in the natural environment. This time, Lauren will take you through a functional analysis conducted in mainstream classrooms.

More specifically: Austin, J.L., Groves, E.A., Reynish, L.C. and Francis, L.L. (2015). Validating trial-based functional analyses in mainstream primary school classrooms. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 48(2), pp.274–288.

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Resources

National Library of Medicine

Research Gate

Wiley Online Library

A discrete-trial approach to the functional analysis of aggressive behaviour in two boys with autismSigafoos, J. and Saggers, E. (1995). A discrete-trial approach to the functional analysis of aggressive behaviour in two boys with autism. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 20(4), pp.287–297. doi:10.1080/07263869500035621.

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We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email ([email protected]) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).

Have a great week!

Happy November everyone!

For this episode, we have invited Nicole to join us, she's a clinical psychologist and a BCBA. Nicole lives in Portugal and she gave us a reality check on what ABA looks like in her daily life.

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Nicole is currently hiring, if you are interested you can visit:

https://nurtureandnature.godaddysites.com/

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We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email ([email protected]) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).

Have a great month!

Trick or Treat!

Our episode today is us discussing our favourite witches - no ABA involved.

Happy Halloween!

Happy October everyone!

For today’s episode, we will be discussing The Checklist Manifesto, by Dr. Atul Gawande.

Dive into the world of surgeries, aviation and construction with us, whilst using a checklist to navigate it all!

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Resources and links

 http://atulgawande.com/

https://www.who.int/news/item/11-12-2010-checklist-helps-reduce-surgical-complications-deaths

https://www.who.int/news/item/04-12-2015-who-checklist-targets-major-causes-of-maternal-and-newborn-deaths-in-health-facilities

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0810119

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We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email ([email protected]) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).

Thank you for listening!

Happy Pumpkin month!

For this month's episode we thought we'd visit the supernatural world again, and how it relates to ABA.

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Links and books we mentioned in the episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Bishop

The crucible by Arthur Miller

Witches, Midwives and Nurses, by Barbara Ehrenreich

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We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email ([email protected]) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).

We hope you enjoy this episode just as much as we enjoyed recording it!

Happy Monday everyone,

For this month, Lauren will walk us through a study done on engaging individuals with dementia - more specifically: Increasing activity attendance and engagement in individuals with dementia using descriptive prompts by Brenske et al., 2008, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

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Resources

https://brightbehaviorinc.com 

Brenske, S., Rudrud, E. H., Schulze, S. A. & Rapp, J. T. (2008). Increasing Activity Attendance and Engagement in Individuals with Dementia Using Descriptive Prompts. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 41 (2), 273-277. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2008.41-273

Article sources: National Library of Medicine and Research Gate

Have a great month!

Welcome back listeners!

We have discussed PECS before (in our 2020 November's episode), this episode is done from the perspective of having done PECS level 1 course.

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Resources and links mentioned in the episode:

https://pecs.com/

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We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email ([email protected]) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).

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Thank you for listening!