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The Masquerade of Support: Applied Behavior Interventions in Special Education Classrooms
When schools describe behavior monitoring as “support,” what does that actually mean for children? This article examines how applied behavior interventions—especially student self-scoring—can satisfy legal requirements under IDEA while shifting care into data collection,…
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Automatons of ABA: When Training Becomes Treatment
In 2022, Karie John submitted her dissertation Training Board Certified Behavior Analysts via Telehealth to Conduct the Trial-Based Functional Analysis to the University of South Florida’s Ph.D program in Applied Behavior Analysis. The project…
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What’s the Function? Sindy Sanchez and the Institutional Logic of Functional Analysis
Sindy Sanchez’s 2018 dissertation, What’s the Function? Assessing Correspondence between Functional Analysis Procedures, was submitted to the University of South Florida’s Ph.D. program in Applied Behavior Analysis under the supervision of Raymond Miltenberger. The…
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What Makes Jasper Tick? When ABA “Interventions” Are Really Experiments on Distress
Every morning, 7-year-old Georgia started her school day the same way: by sitting in her chair. Not just any chair — the same one, in the same spot, every day. If another student sat there, Georgia’s…
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When Data Collectors Become the Experiment: What Counts as Research in ABA When the Outcome Is Five Seconds?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) presents itself as a science of precision. Its authority in autism services rests on a familiar promise: careful measurement produces objective truth, and objective truth produces effective care. Yet when…
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Four Children and a Stopwatch: What Counts as Research in ABA
The experiment involved four children — one ten-year-old, one twelve-year-old, and a pair of five-year-old twins. All had “developmental disabilities”. They were asked to attach laminated shapes or rhyming-word pictures to Velcro folders. For…
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The Masquerade of Support: Applied Behavior Interventions in Special Education Classrooms
When schools describe behavior monitoring as “support,” what does that actually mean for children? This article examines how applied behavior interventions—especially student self-scoring—can satisfy legal requirements under IDEA while shifting care into data collection,…
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Automatons of ABA: When Training Becomes Treatment
In 2022, Karie John submitted her dissertation Training Board Certified Behavior Analysts via Telehealth to Conduct the Trial-Based Functional Analysis to the University of South Florida’s Ph.D program in Applied Behavior Analysis. The project…
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What’s the Function? Sindy Sanchez and the Institutional Logic of Functional Analysis
Sindy Sanchez’s 2018 dissertation, What’s the Function? Assessing Correspondence between Functional Analysis Procedures, was submitted to the University of South Florida’s Ph.D. program in Applied Behavior Analysis under the supervision of Raymond Miltenberger. The…
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What Makes Jasper Tick? When ABA “Interventions” Are Really Experiments on Distress
Every morning, 7-year-old Georgia started her school day the same way: by sitting in her chair. Not just any chair — the same one, in the same spot, every day. If another student sat there, Georgia’s…
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When Data Collectors Become the Experiment: What Counts as Research in ABA When the Outcome Is Five Seconds?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) presents itself as a science of precision. Its authority in autism services rests on a familiar promise: careful measurement produces objective truth, and objective truth produces effective care. Yet when…
-

Four Children and a Stopwatch: What Counts as Research in ABA
The experiment involved four children — one ten-year-old, one twelve-year-old, and a pair of five-year-old twins. All had “developmental disabilities”. They were asked to attach laminated shapes or rhyming-word pictures to Velcro folders. For…