Chirping with ABA Owls

Hey everyone, just a quick message about the podcast - we will be taking a break until the end of the year to plan and create newer content! Feel free to keep in touch! Instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).   Carla and Lauren

Hello there! For this month, Lauren will guide us through a very fascinating book, Zero Degrees of Empathy by Simon Baron-Cohen.   As always, we appreciate you listening and we hope you've enjoy this episode. Please feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). ------

Hello! Did you miss us? We hope so! For June, we invited our friend and colleague Amy to join us again! The topic for this episode is PBS (Positive Behaviour Support), what is is, how it's done, where is it applied, etc. ----more---- Here are some resources mentioned on the episode: Johnston, J. S., Foxx, R. M., Jacobson, J. W., Green, G., & Mulick, J. A. (2006). Positive behavior support and applied behavior analysis. Behavior Analyst, 29(1), 51–74. ISBA (Irish Society for Behavior Analysis)----more---- Thank you for listening! We'll be back in July with another ABA Owls episode!    

May 1st and the first Monday of May! Here is part 2 of our ethics episode, a continuation from last month's. ******* Resources BACB Ethics Code Ethics in Life and Business What to know before posting pictures of your children online The problems and dangers of posting pictures of children on social media Sharenthood book website Reset podcast: Sharenting ******* Thank you for Listening! We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).  

Happy Monday! This month it's Lauren's turn to guide us through some reading materials, and the book of today is The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida. Thank you for listening, we hope you've enjoy this episode. Please feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). The Hoot Chronicles will return on May 15th! ------ Resources & Links https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/175207/naoki-higashida/ https://davidmitchellbooks.com/about-david-mitchell

Happy Monday! Here we are again with another episode. We've jumped into the ethics rabbit hole and decided to tackle a topic that is close to our hearts: posting pictures of children online. This is an area we've always been interested and discuss quite a lot, so we thought we should turn it into an episode! Part 2 will come out on the 1st May. ******* Here are some resources to keep you entertained! BACB Ethics Code Ethics in Life and Business What to know before posting pictures of your children online The problems and dangers of posting pictures of children on social media Sharenthood book website Reset podcast: Sharenting ******* Thank you for Listening! We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).  

Welcome back to The Hoot Chronicles! For this episode, Carla will discuss some research articles that address different areas of applying the VB-MAPP (Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program by Mark Sundberg). ** Here are our sources for the articles: Barnes, C. S., Mellor, J. D., & Rehfeldt, R. A. (2014). Implementing the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP): Teaching Assessment Techniques. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 30(1), 36–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-013-0004-5 Padilla, K. L., & Akers, J. S. (2021). Content Validity Evidence for the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(11), 4054–4066. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04864-y Narayan, S., & Srikanth, G. (2020, July). Telehealth as a Parent Training Platform:a Behavioral Development approach to Autism Intervention. IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education, 10(4), 48-54. DOI: 10.9790/7388-1004044854 **** Our next Hoots episode will be out on Monday 17th of April. We hope you'll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Have a great month!  

Welcome back listeners, we hope you missed us! We're kicking off the second part of season 3 with an episode on a very talked about topic in our field: TEACCH! We've decided to learn a bit more about this approach and its origins, so if you're curious, join us. We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).   ---- Sources used in our research: https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/professional-development/the-teacch-approach https://teacch.com/about-us/ https://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/teacch  https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisprograms.com/faq/what-is-the-teacch-method/  

Welcome back listeners! In our January Hoots, Lauren will discuss some recommendations for those of you whom are doing their supervision hours, supervising others or even pursuing an education in ABA. The article used for this episode is: Helvey, C.I., Thuman, E. & Cariveau, T. (2021). Recommended Practices for Individual Supervision: Considerations for the Behavior-Analytic Trainee, Behavior Analysis in Practice (2022), 15, 370-381 https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs40617-021-00557-9 ----- Resources Article: National Library of Medicine https://sites.rutgers.edu/rucares/people/dr-casey-irwin-helvey/ https://uncw.edu/psy/about/faculty-cariveau.html ------- We hope you'll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Our next episode will be in March as we will be taking a break in February. Thank you for Listening!

Happy New Year! We hope everyone is done with 2022 and ready to take 2023 on! As we've never done an episode on New Year's resolutions, we thought "no time like the present!". We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it!

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 (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) 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 (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) 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. doi:10.1002/jaba.208 --- 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. Jennifer L. Austin----- We hope you'll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) 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. ----more---- Nicole is currently hiring, if you are interested you can visit: https://nurtureandnature.godaddysites.com/ https://www.facebook.com/nurtureenature/ informationABA@gmail.com ----more---- We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) 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! ----more---- 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 ----more---- We hope you'll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) 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. ----more---- Links and books we mentioned in the episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Bishop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Suppression_Act,_1957 The crucible by Arthur Miller Witches, Midwives and Nurses, by Barbara Ehrenreich ----more---- We hope you'll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) 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. ----more---- 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 ----more---- We hope you'll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Have a great month!

Welcome back listeners! This month, Lauren will take us a bit deeper into PECS and how it works. 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. ----more---- Resources and links mentioned in the episode: https://pecs.com/ ----more---- We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). ----more---- Thank you for listening!

Today, we discuss a very popular live streamed court case that grabbed everyone's attention. Here's a hint: It involves a MEGA PINT of spilled tea.

Happy July everyone! This episode we are all about The Power of Character Strengths by Ryan Niemec and Robert McGrath. ----more---- Websites mentioned https://www.viacharacter.org/ https://www.viacharacter.org/pdf/340%20Ways%20by%20Tayyab%20Rashid.pdf ----more---- We hope you'll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Our next episode will be in September as we are having a small break. Thank you for listening!

Welcome to July! This month we decided to delve back into our training staff series and we are discussing the behaviours surrounding training new team members. We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Enjoy August and you shall hear from us back in September!

Happy Monday everyone! For today's episode, keeping with the topic of medical interventions, we will be discussing pill swallowing. More specifically: Behavioural training for pill-swallowing difficulties in young children with autisitic disorder by Ghuman, Cataldo, Beck and Slifer, 2004, from the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. This is a topic a lot of us can relate to, not just SEN people - therefore, we find it very relevant. ----more----Resources http://www.pillswallowing.com https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15662153/ Research Gate: Behavioral Training for Pill Swallowing Difficulties ----more---- We hope you'll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Thank you for listening!

A good Monday to you all! For this episode, we have invited Denis to join us for a chat.  He has worked with young people for most of his life and has come across the ABA world in the last few years. We hope you enjoy hearing about his perspective on ABA. ----more---- We hope you enjoy this episode just as much as we enjoyed recording it. Please feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).

For our random chat, we decided to discuss money (one of the tabboo topics in our society!).   Enjoy!

Welcome back listeners! Let's wrap up another month with a book discussion! This time we take you through 'The Supervisor's Guidebook' by Reid, Parsons and Green. ----more---- Here is the website we mentioned on the episode:  http://www.dennishreidau.com/ ----more---- We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). We hope you enjoy it, and you are welcome to send us some feedback!

Welcome back listeners! For our May episode we have decided to thoughts! We delve into the topic of what are overt and covert behaviours and it's relevance in the field of behaviour analysis. ----more----We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Thank you for listening! ----more---- Resources: Zillo, D. (2016). Who, What and When: Skinner's Critiques of Neuroscience and His Main Targets. Association for Behaviour Analysts International, 39 (2), 197-218. doi: 10.1007/s40614-016-0053-x Article link ----more----

Hello! Just a short and random conversation about scammers, disney villains and how ABA has changed the way we look at people.   Enjoy!

Allo Allo! For this month, Lauren will walk us through a study done on needle phobia - more specifically: Stimulus Fading and Differential Reinforcement for the Treatment of Needle Phobia in a Youth with Autism by Shabani and Fisher, 2006, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. We hope you find this episode helpful (we're not sure how pleasant it is because we find needles dreadful!). Have a great week and thank you for listening! ----more---- If you'd like to read the article, here is an access link: Research Gate: Stimulus Fading and Differential Reinforcement for the Treatment of Needle Phobia in a Youth with Autism

Happy April! For this month, we will be discussing the topics of reinforcement and motivation within the workplace. We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). ----more---- Resources referenced in the episode: http://www.beamaba.com www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org www.chiefmotivatingofficers.com  Byron, W., Gilroy, S. & Hantula, D. A. (2012). Temporal (in)stability of employee preferences for rewards. Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 32, 58-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/01608061.2012.646854

Happy Monday! For today, we will be discussing Blind Spots, by Dr. Kimberly Nix Berens. This book takes a deep dive into the world of education - we think anybody who has been part of the school system will find the content interesting. ----more---- Here are some links you might find useful: https://fitlearners.com/ https://www.drkimberlyberens.com/ The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria has an episode with Dr. Kimberly discussing her book - session 136 The Controversial Exchange podcast by Ryan O'Donnell - TCE#03 ----more---- Happy readings!    

We're back! To kick off the second part of Season 2, we will be discussing the GROW Model.   On the episode we do reference some websites and articles, so we've added them to the episode's blurb for your ease. Thank you for listening! ----more---- https://www.performanceconsultants.com/grow-model

Happy Monday! This epsisode we are all about the AFLS - Assessment of Functional Living Skills, by Dr. Partington and Dr. Mueller. ----more---- Our next episode will be in March as we are having a small break. We hope you like this episode, and as always, feel free to contact us with any queries and feedback!  

Happy New Year!! To kick off this year, we will be starting a new series of episodes about staff training. This episode is an introduction to the topic and future episodes will be more detailed in each area of staff training. ----more---- We hope you enjoy listening and please send us any feedback, queries or suggestions you might have to aba.owls.uk@gmail.com or message us on instagram @aba_owls. ----more---- Thank you for listening!

We hope everyone's December is going smoothly (but let's be honest, it's a hard time). This month, our elected book is "Teaching Good Learner Repertoires" by Steve Ward (BCBA) and Teresa Grimes (BCBA). We hope you enjoy our review of this fantastic book.   Happy Holidays and we shall return in the new year!

Happy Monday! It is December, the most "wonderful" (stressful) time of the year. We hope our Q&A with our friend and colleague Amy will put a smile on your face. Please send us any questions you might have for future Q&A episodes. You can reach us on aba.owls.uk@gmail.com, instagram @aba_owls or on our website www.abaowls.com   Thank you for listening!

It's Mid November, so why not have a listen at us discussing books? For this episode, we will be covering The Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Revised by James W. Parrington. Or how it's more commonly known: ABLLS.   Any comments, queries, suggestions, feel free to email us at aba.owls.uk@gmail.com

Happy November everyone! For this month's episode, we thought we'd go towards a more technical direction in our content - whilst keeping it accessible for various audiences. We will be covering DTT (Discrete Trial Teaching) and NET (Natural Environment Teaching). We hope you enjoy it, we welcome feedback! Our email is aba.owls.uk@gmail.com   Have a great month!

Allo Allo! For this episode of the Hoot Chronicles, we are covering Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching by Julie S. Vargas. We are both great fans of this book and we hope that our episode peaks your interest. Thank you for listening!

Happy October! Autumn has arrived and so has our new episode! This month, in honour of Halloween, we tackle superstitious behaviour and look at it from a behaviour analyst's point of view. We hope you enjoy!

For this month's episode, Lauren will guide us through The Verbal Behavior Approach by Dr. Mary Lynch Barbera and Tracy Rasmussen.  We hope you enjoy it!  

Welcome back! After having a break we've returned with a new episode. In this month's episode we discuss what is science and why does ABA fit in that category. We hope you enjoy =)

Welcome back to the Hoot Chronicles!----more---- Our July book is called Applied Behavior Analysis (International Edition) by Cooper, Heron and Heward. ----more----Thank you for listening to us discussing this giant of a book and please feel free to email us at aba.owls.uk@gmail.com or contact us on instagram @aba_owls - we welcome queries, suggestions and feedback. Have a great day!

Welcome to July! For this month's episode, we will be answering some of the questions people have sent us. Feel free to send in your question as we will do more Q&A episodes in the future. For this episode, we have invited Tracey T., an amazing person and BCBA with 20 years of experience in the field. We hope you enjoy this episode just as much as we enjoyed recording it!   Contacts and social aba.owls.uk@gmail.com instagram: @aba_owls www.abaowls.com  

Hello everyone! For this month, Lauren will guide us through the Early Start Denver Model by Rogers and Dawson. We hope you enjoy it and as always, feel free to email us at aba.owls.uk@gmail.com or contact us on instagram @aba_owls if you have any queries or topics you'd like us to address.   Thank you for listening!

Hello all of you behaviour enthusiasts! For our June episode we have decided to cover data. We delve into the topic of how to prevent from being tricked by biased information and why data is so important to the field of behaviour analysis. Next month will be our Q&A episode, so please feel free to send your questions to us on instagram @aba_owls or email us at aba.owls.uk@gmail.com Thank you for listening!

Happy end of May! Lets wrap up another month with a book discussion! This time we take you through "First Course in Applied Behaviour Analysis" by Paul Chance. We hope you'll enjoy it!

Happy Monday! For our May episode, we end our segment on ABA programmes by discussing what is involved in accepting and terminating clients. We hope you enjoy the episode and feel free to contact us on aba.owls.uk@gmail.com

This month we will be jumping into the book of "Behavior Modification" by Raymond G. Miltenberger. We hope you enjoy listening to our review!

Happy April everyone! For this month we will be discussing what's involved in developing and implementing an ABA programme. You will explain how we decide which targets to implement, how can a goal be considered mastered and other areas. We hope you enjoy it!