4 Ways to Understand Excessive Crying in Infants and Help Parents Few sounds work on a parent’s nervous system the way an infant’s cry does. And few questions frustrate parents and teachers more than the...
One sentence from 1968 gives parents the standard they need — and the right to demand it. When your child is diagnosed with autism and you begin an ABA program, a question quickly follows: how...
Empathy and Consequences Are Not Mutually Exclusive Gentle parenting has drawn significant scrutiny in the press and in the research literature. Critics on Psychology Today and elsewhere have noted the movement’s reliance on idealized standards...
When Punishment Becomes a Reward and 3 Ways to Fix That In the world of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), what matters most is the data. So many parents use verbal redirections — often born of anger...
Terms "Positive" & "Negative" in Applied Behavioral Analysis When we use consequence to increase (a reward) or decrease (a punishment) a behavior, we almost always add the term negative or the term positive: for example,...
What is a Reward? Rewards, as a concept in ABA, is anything that increases the chance of behavior to occur again. Sometimes we call this a reinforcement. Many ABA approaches define rewards into four categories....
Therapists Confess: Ten Parenting Tips We Actually Use As behavior therapists, we have a library full of books and research articles that tout parenting best practices. We’ve coached live time-outs, given lectures on ways to...
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