tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34622010450208340802026-04-05T17:02:09.662-07:00Personal blog of the 2009 Association for Behavior Analysis International® Annual Conference, May 22-26, 2009,Phoenix Convention Center and Sheraton Downtown, Phoenix, Arizona. DISCLAIMER: Personal opinion and blog, not an official outlet intended to represent ABA-International® or other official entity or organization.Regina Claypool-Freyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04008069716155233108noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3462201045020834080.post-84902145221785690422009-11-24T03:36:00.000-08:002009-11-24T03:36:42.826-08:00

Gone but not forgotten... The 2009 ABA International Annual Convention may be over for the year, but 2010 is coming, and with it the next convention in San Antonio, Texas May 28-June 1, 2010. For official news and information on that convention, registration, hotel and travel, see the ABAI website  The new home of future blogging for 2010 (and hopefully beyond) can be found at,

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At the ABA International Annual Convention bookstore I had a chance to pick up two issues of Behavior Analysis in Practice, and as a personal recommendation, if you have not read the journal it may well be of interest--practical and readable, with research details but also more lay-friendly description on implementation and pitfalls than many research journals and articles include.As an example,

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Just a few snapshots of the 2009 ABA International annual convention and Phoenix Convention Center for your enjoyment,Some exterior shots of the entrance,And a couple of interiors of the mammoth exhibit hall during the first evening poster session,See also:Lighter side: Phoenix , andLighter side: What's To Eat at the Conference?----------Smile for the camera...DISCLAIMER: Personal opinion and

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After a good, but admittedly tiring, five days at the Association for Behavior Analysis International annual convention, it was enjoyable to finish out with a very interesting session looking at use of modern, and commonly used electronic technology to assist with teaching or supporting students on the autism spectrum in community skills, while simultaneously reducing the intrusiveness of a

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On May 24th at the Association for Behavior Analysis International annual convention, Phoenix, AZ there were two panels about the dissemination of behavior analysis, one that has been mentioned before on the blog is:Professional Development Series: Dissemination: Spreading the Word without Sounding the Alarm [Previous post on the panel]The Professional Development Series is a group of

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Raymond Miltenberger, Ph.D., BCBA is the President-Elect of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, and will be delivering the Presidential Address to the entirety of the membership --asking important questions that behavior analysts and the scientific field of behavior analysis might be thinking about during the upcoming year and beyond.Dr. Miltenberger's formal bio,"Dr. Ray

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This Symposium at the ABA International Annual Conference Phoenix, AZ illustrates a variety of strategies for"...promoting behavioral health of older adults including: promoting choice to reduce depression in nursing home residents; an analysis of the effects of gambling on activity level and well-being of nursing home residents; evaluation of the adaptation of a skills training protocol to

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In this paper session from the 2009 ABA International Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ, James T. Todd, Ph.D. will be presenting on Facilitated Communication--which persists despite numerous research reports of lack of effect and facilitator influence, and may be undergoing a resurgence of use for those with developmental disabilities.page 8, Figure: Popular Media Citations for Faciliated

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This sounds like an interesting paper session at the ABA International Annual Conference, Phoenix; First, addressing what does the public, and in particular the media as agents of public information, perceive applied behavior analysis to be, and how are they passing it along?The second presentation addresses a more thorny question of what do practitioners in the field believe that behavior

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Hi All, I wanted to let everyone know that the Association for Behavior Analysis International is soliciting its members to find instructors to teach classes in the ABAI sponsored Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) Masters Degree Program in Applied Behavior Health Analysis. This international initiative started in 2005 as a result of one of ABAI’s international delegations

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A companion to the "What's to Eat at the Conference" post,Here's a hint to the weather forecast in Phoenix (short version: currently hot and over 100 degrees, but as the locals joke, it's a "dry heat"), which might help out with packing, (although in the air-conditioned setting of the Convention Center, spending a fair amount of sitting, a sweater is not always amiss).The weather link also has a

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This is a follow-up to the previous post on using Twitter at the ABA International Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ.Thanks to Tim Courtney and Lauren Coit for authoring a detailed manual of Twitter use and Twitter etiquette!Here's the intro,"Twitter Best Practices for 35th Annual ABAI Convention Phoenix May 22-26, 2009 What is Twitter? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging

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This symposium at the ABA-International Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ addresses the topic of Acquired (ABI) and traumatic (TBI) brain injury and rehabilitation techniques.Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), are together two of the most common causes of disability and death in the U.S.. Every year 1.5 million Americans experience a brain injury and 80,000 suffer from

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Amos Rolider, a professor at Emek Yezreel College in Israel will be receiving the 2009 SABA award for effective presentation. As my favorite interest is disseminating behavior analysis, the career of Dr. Rolider is of interest to me. He’s been teaching, researching, and practicing for over 30 years in north America and Israel. His main focuses tend to surround anti-social behaviors of children in

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A short, but provocative session at the ABA International Annual Conference, Phoenix, will be addressing the issues of why we have such strong cultural reliance on psychotropic medications to treat psychological disorders, and are we taking too many and possibly for the wrong reasons?Psychotropic medication in treating psychological disorder is almost a cultural given--with a diversity of new

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Mount Kilimanjaro, 2000 Photo Credit: Dr. Lonnie G. ThompsonNote: Please also see below for other related talks on the theme ofglobal climate change and behavioral influences.The Presidential Scholar's Address at the ABA International Annual Conference is one of the highlights of the conference, featuring an eminent scholar of national stature.This year's presentation is by an outstanding

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This symposium at the ABA International annual conference in Phoenix, will present research showing how, to paraphrase the title, to apply behavior analysis to help achieve sustainability. (This is a very timely topic, by the way, since May has been announced at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website, as "National Sustainability Month", part of the 2009 Science Year).Sustainability is a

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This symposium from the Association for Behavioral Analysis International annual conference looks at the the role of parents in raising and treating a child with autism, some common sources of parental stress (feeding problems, child safety, multiple role demands) and examines means of productively addressing these stressors.Parental involvement in the treatment of children with autism has been

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In another talk from the B. F. Skinner Lecture Series at the ABA International 2009 Annual Conference, Dr. Robert B. Cialdini Professor of Psychology and Marketing at Arizona State University, will be lecturing on the powerful influence of social norms on human behavior.These social norms are of three types:Injunctive: perceptions of what people ought to do,Descriptive: perceptions of what "most

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Tim Courtney, M.S., BCBA, put together a video tutorial of how to use Twitter to send out short info "tweets" on presentations and other happenings at the ABA International annual conference. I've parked a copy here, [Note: 5/7/09--the embedded video was causing a few bandwidth problems, so I've replaced it with a link. Enjoy the video over at vimeo. ] to let others who need to jump-start on

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While the Conference itself is an enjoyable intellectual and collegial experience, the more prosaic considerations, such as where to eat is sometimes a chancy proposition, especially if one can only take so many days of eating hamburgers, surviving on bar food or don't want to burn through the food budget in the first two days (In Atlanta I survived almost exclusively on the bananas and bagels

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This symposium at the ABA International annual conference describes applications of TAGteach to teach children with autism to follow receptive instructions, the social behaviors of eye contact and maintaining proximity to peers, and also describes the use of the TAG as a secondary reinforcer. Limitations in the studies are also described.As described at the TAGteach International website, "TAG is

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The premise of this Invited Address presentation at the ABA International Annual Conference, is that behavior analysis, under the umbrella of Organizational Behavioral Management (OBM), and using such as Applied Behavioral Science, has much to offer the business and corporate world.To cite from Judith A. Johnson's bio from the program, potential areas include,"...a broad range of industries:

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As part of the B. F. Skinner Lecture Series at the ABA International 2009 Annual Conference, Dr. Betina Jean-Louis will be speaking on the programs of the Harlem Children's Zone, Inc., the brainchild of Geoffrey Canada.By reports in the media, some of the premises of some of the Harlem Children's Zone programs, such as Baby College were inspired by the work of behavior analysts--Drs. Betty Hart,

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This is a presentation under the "Professional Development Series" at the ABA International 2009 Annual Conference that looks like it could be interesting because topics of applied behavior analysis are currently underrepresented in the public sphere except as relates to autism.There seems to be a point made in the abstract that behavior analysts may not be effectively using their own skill set

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