Ep43 Pandemics, and Puppies, and Pawsitives oh my! A conversation about the Constructional Approach, shelter dogs, and animal welfare with Maasa and Sean from CAAWT
“We don’t ever need to remove reinforcement from the learner to achieve success.” Maasa and Sean ABAI 2022 Many behavior analysts and animal trainers are familiar with the concept of differential rein...
17 Nov 20221h 50min
Ep42 Unmasking Through Theatre with Sarah Duc
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being." -Oscar Wilde There’s been a l...
7 Nov 20221h 32min
Ep41 Rural Planets: The Impact of Geographical Differences and Evaluating Quality of Life with Matt Cicoria
There’s a common adage: “You can’t understand another person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” Sometimes those shoes take you into lesser charted territories. In a previous episode we discus...
2 Nov 20221h 41min
Ep40 The Invisible Gravity of Ableism and Consent with Worner Leland (ethics)
When people go about their daily activities, there is variable privilege in navigating the world. One way this shows up is in ableism, and people with non-disabled privilege may not even notice the ea...
23 Okt 20221h 38min
Ep39 Separating the Science from the Application with Nicholas A. Maio-Aether (Ethics)
“‘ABA’ -- You keep using this term. I do not think it means what you think it means.” While many practicing in the field of behavior analysis would like to believe the general populace has an accura...
28 Sep 20221h 34min
Ep34 Lived Experience and Self-Advocacy with Michau van Speyk (Ethics)
When creating goals, targets, programs, addition/removal of accommodations, are we genuinely listening to the needs and preferences of autistic individuals? Or do we find ourselves more likely to adhe...
27 Sep 20221h 10min
Ep38 Battling Diagnostic Stigmas- A Discussion with Sarah Alford Hart (Ethics)
While there is plenty of discussion about the increase in autism diagnoses during the current and recent generation, we cannot forget there’s a generation of individuals, particularly female, who were...
10 Sep 20221h 25min
Ep37 Navigating Systems and Intersectionality with Nyetta Abernathy (Ethics)
During this year, we are trying to talk less and listen more. In this LIVE talk, we meet with Nyetta to learn from her experiences as an African American woman, behavior analyst, and mother as she nav...
23 Aug 20221h 35min
