The Problem: Behavior Analysis Has Too Little Impact

A concern about dissemination of behavioral technology results from a concern about the limited impact of behavior analysis. Before looking at the impact of behavior analysis on the world of action, let us first look at its impact on the world of ideas, if you will pardon my dualism. It would be of interest to get a historical perspective on how much impact behavior analysis has had. In doing so, we should keep in mind its recent emergence, its small number of participants, and the small amount of resources that have been devoted to it.

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Preventing Autism Now: A Possible Next Step for Behavior Analysis

Presented at: Association for Behavior Analysis International 30th Annual ABA Convention, Boston, MA, May, 2004 

Author: Philip W. Drash, Ph.D., BCBA
Autism Early Intervention Center 
2901 West Busch Blvd., Suite 807, Tampa, FL 33618

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Comportamento Autista, Análise do Comportamento, e o Gene (En Espagnol)

Abstract

Este artigo aborda o significa de autismo, a etiologia do comportamento e dos valores autistas, o debate natureza-criação, contingências x genes, e a resistência a uma análise comportamental do autismo.

Comments on Autistic Behavior, Behavior Analysis, and the Gene - Part II

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Hi Dick,

We met briefly at this year's ABA when I bought one of your wonderful t-shirts.  I confess that I have yet to wear it other than when concealed by another article of clothing but am working on that.

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Autistic Behavior, Behavior Analysis, and the Gene - Part 2

This article reviews the negative behavior-analytic commentary on Drash and Tudor’s behavior-analytic analysis of the etiology of autistic repertoires and values. This article also asks that, in our effort to scrub it clean, we not drown Drash and Tudor’s beautiful, but fragile, new-born, behavior-analytic baby in hyper-methodological, hyper-scholarly bathwater.

Autistic Behavior, Behavior Analysis, and the Gene

Prologue
I am a radical, fanatical behavior analyst who thinks he knows everything there is to know about the use and misuse of reinforcement contingencies. Two semesters ago, I started working with a beautiful, non-verbal 4-year-old boy in the preschool autism classroom at Croyden Avenue School—my first hands-on experience with these kids. And like all my students who do their practica there, I fell in love with my child.

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Is it Morally Defensible to Use the Developmentally Disabled as Guinea Pigs?

Others have argued that we can justify the developmentally disabled spending some of their time as research subjects by considering it part of the tuition they pay. And we might make the same argument for college sophomores in Introductory Psych when they serve as subjects; however, we are obligated to provide the sophomores with an educationally valuable debriefing, in return for their participation. But I don't think the developmentally disabled get such an exchange. And often the institution doesn't get any pay off either.

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A Brief History of Behavior Analysis and Autism

Applied behavior analysis and autism are an amazing couple. Over 30 years ago, a clinical psychologist did some time at the University of Washington, the source of most of the early research on applied behavior analysis. Inspired and informed by his Washington training, the clinician went to LA and put his own spin on behavior analysis, as he started working with children whose behavioral repertoires had so many deficits of functional behavior and so many excesses of dysfunctional behavior that they were labeled autistic.

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Links

DickMalott.com Autism Links

PSY 357: Autism Practicum

Language Facilitation Training System: Icon Exchange

Language Facilitation Training System: Verbal Behavior

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