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How ABA Experiments Use Planned Ignoring to Identify the Autistic Child’s Breaking Point
In 2006, Tiffany Kodak submitted her dissertation titled, Evaluating Preference for Reinforcers under Varying Schedule Requirements in Children with Developmental Disabilities to the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University as a part of…
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When Your Child’s “Ooo” and “Ahh” Becomes Evidence of ABA’s Effectiveness
In 2023, Kristin S. Bowman submitted Evaluating the Effect of Physical Prompts on Echoic Responses to Endicott College as part of a Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis. The study focused on autistic children who…
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Six Children and a Webcam: What Counts as “Remote Instruction” in ABA?
Introduction In 2021, Joseph M. Peysin submitted a doctoral dissertation to Columbia University titled Descriptive and Experimental Analyses of In-person and Remote Instruction, as part of a Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). The…
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Good Touch Bad Touch Consent Training in Early Childhood: Questions of Reach and Representation
In 2020, Marlesha C. Bell submitted her doctoral research dissertation, titled Changing the Culture of Consent: Teaching Young Children Personal Boundaries in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Applied…
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Pennies for Pedometers: The Behavioral Logic of Adult Compliance
Every weekday morning at a Life Skills Development program in Florida, five intellectually disabled men were handed pedometers and reminded of a simple rule: the more they walked, the more money they would earn.…
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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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How ABA Experiments Use Planned Ignoring to Identify the Autistic Child’s Breaking Point
In 2006, Tiffany Kodak submitted her dissertation titled, Evaluating Preference for Reinforcers under Varying Schedule Requirements in Children with Developmental Disabilities to the Department of Psychology at Louisiana State University as a part of…
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When Your Child’s “Ooo” and “Ahh” Becomes Evidence of ABA’s Effectiveness
In 2023, Kristin S. Bowman submitted Evaluating the Effect of Physical Prompts on Echoic Responses to Endicott College as part of a Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis. The study focused on autistic children who…
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Six Children and a Webcam: What Counts as “Remote Instruction” in ABA?
Introduction In 2021, Joseph M. Peysin submitted a doctoral dissertation to Columbia University titled Descriptive and Experimental Analyses of In-person and Remote Instruction, as part of a Ph.D. in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). The…
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Good Touch Bad Touch Consent Training in Early Childhood: Questions of Reach and Representation
In 2020, Marlesha C. Bell submitted her doctoral research dissertation, titled Changing the Culture of Consent: Teaching Young Children Personal Boundaries in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Applied…
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Pennies for Pedometers: The Behavioral Logic of Adult Compliance
Every weekday morning at a Life Skills Development program in Florida, five intellectually disabled men were handed pedometers and reminded of a simple rule: the more they walked, the more money they would earn.…
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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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