Behavior-Analytic International Communities

Dialogue between Dick Malott and Jorge Luis Rios

Note: Dick Malott's reactions are in ALL-CAPS.

 Dear Richard:

I am 37 years old, I have a mayor in electrical engineering and been married for 10 years. We have no kids. We visited los Horcones (www.loshorcones.org) two years ago and were invited by Juan Robinson to live there which we tried hard but everything went wrong, especially Juan stroke.

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Dick's Day: A Day of Degeneracy

 Saturday, April 22, 2006 6:19 AM

  Peggy:

I’m taking the liberty of sharing this email with a few hundred close friends because it’s so morally instructive.

After our Departmental Honors Thesis Orals, I had only two small, silver-dollar-sized scones (which I chose to classify as non-desserts) and announced that I would abstain from any of the other tempting pastries.

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Graduation-Ceremony Protocol

White-Trash Graduation Garb

Foot gear

• Tennis Shoes
• Running Shoes
• Dirty brown loafers
• Sandals
• Flip Flops

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What Is Behaviorism

Subject: 2 brief questions for a project on behaviorism

Dr. Malott,

My name is Chris Perrin and I currently am a doctoral student at OSU working with Nancy Neef.

I am writing because I was hoping that you would be interested in contributing to a project that I am doing for a behaviorism class I am taking with Bill Heward. The title of the project is "What's Behaviorism" and has its roots in several questions that were once posed to Don Baer and eventually ended up in Cooper, Heron, and Heward's Applied Behavior Analysis. Because I thought that the answers Dr. Baer gave were very insightful I decided it would be interesting to interview other prominent figures in behavior analysis to get their view points and compile them into a class presentation.

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Europe: Day 1.5?

About 18 hrs Kzoo to Oslo. I hate flying, the longer the flights, the stronger the hate. I’ll never do it again.

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Europe: Day 1.5?

About 18 hrs Kzoo to Oslo. I hate flying, the longer the flights, the stronger the hate. I’ll never do it again.

I hate newness, like where do you stick your credit card, and what buttons do you push, and is this the right ticket to get me on the train from the airport to the the Radisson, and is it the Radisson I’m supposed to go to, and which door do I go through, and which train do I get on, and is this really my stop, and, and, and, ...

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Europe: Day 5

The reason you're not as cool as me is that you don't have a $200 Flip Mino HD video recorder. If you did, then you could make cool videos like this, at least if you're Oslo, Norway. I love my Flip almost as much as my new iPhone 3Gs, for which I paid $600 for the upgrade, so I'd have a compass to guide me around Oslo. The Flip is only 0.66 the size of the iPhone and 1.3 times as cool.

I love the lady in the opening shot. She's so sweet. She sign-motioned me to show her what I'd videoed. When I shoot people on the street like this, I wish I could give them a copy, people who probably don't have internet.

So please check out my Oslo Street Music video by pasting the following address into your internet browser.

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Europe: Day 9 - Tourists

Dear Reader:

The three Japanese girls on the train trip from Oslo to the fiords were the highlight of my day. If you don’t fall in love with them, as I did, you need to have your citizen ship on the planet Earth revoked.

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Europe: Day 12 - Copenhagen's Tivoli

Couple days in Copenhagen, Denmark. Spent until 4 PM yesterday trying to get my iPhone 3Gs European data straight so I could continue using its GPS and emergency phone calls by only paying a small fortune and not going completely bankrupt, trying to get my credit card functioning reliably, trying to book a train to Paris, trying to get a hotel for one night in Paris before moving into a one-week apartment there, all with moderate success and moderate frustration, and yet still marveling at what you can do and almost do on the internet in 2009. Love it.

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Europe: Day 23: Dinner in Carcassonne, France

Not reading French, I was surprised to find that the salad I ordered as my appetizer was covered with meat, which turned out to be duck, and also turned out to be quite good, to this vegetarian's palate.

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: A Living Statue and Behavioral Technology

COPENHAGEN: A WALKING LIVING STATUE

Street Performer She's cool, as is the balloon girl, as is the background music by Uakti, an avant-garde, classically-trained Brazilian group who make their own instruments. 

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Behavioral Technology and Also Street Music

Gentle Readers,

BEHAVIORAL TECHNOLOGY

Most therapies for children with autism have no significant evidence to support them, e.g. swimming with dolphins, riding horses, and music, art, massage, brushing, weighted vest, speech, occupational therapies etc, little evidence beyond the occasional anecdote. However, there's one behavioral therapy that's so well documented in peer-reviewed journals that it has now become best practice, and that's bubble therapy

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Notes from a Roving Radical Behaviorist: Behavioral Bubble Busted in Barcelona

Having had the opportunity to see beginning practitioners of big-bubble technology in Barcelona, I now appreciate the hours and hours of deliberate practice it takes to become a Board Certified Behavioral Bubble Buddy, like Paris’ King of Bubbles. Therefore, we need to add a minimum of 20 hours of preliminary supervised practice, before our practicum students can begin to use the big-bubbles in the discrete trial setting

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BATS 2010, Behavioral Boot Camp, Final Feast

NY Times: O. Ivar Lovaas, Pioneer in Developing Therapies for Autism, Dies at 83

O. Ivar Lovaas, a psychologist who developed one of the most widely used therapies for children with autism, and in doing so helped change the treatment and the public perception of the condition, died on Aug. 2 in Lancaster, Calif. He was 83.

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Tuesday

Aug102010

Another sad day for behavior analysis. We’ve lost Løvaas.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 12:32PM

“At 6 PM on August the 2nd, 2010, Professor Emeritus O. Ivar Løvaas, Ph.D., passed away quietly after a long battle with illness. He was surrounded by his closest family. There will be an official memorial service at the University of California, Los Angeles later this month.” Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh, Executive Director, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. Unfortunately, Løvaas had had Alzheimer’s for the last few years. He was recovering from surgery on for a broken hip and got an infection when he died

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Friday

Jul162010

Notes from a Radical Behaviorist: Boobs Blog Part I

Friday, July 16, 2010 at 10:08AM

Boobs Blog Part I from Dick Malott on Vimeo.

Yes this is the sort of topic Dr. Richard W. Malott, PhD, BCBA-D discuss with his impressionable first-semester graduate students in their intense Conditioning and Learning course in his Behavioral Boot Camp in the Behavior Analysis Program of the Department of Psychology of Western Michigan University, located somewhere in Southwestern Michigan.

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Wednesday

Jul072010

Notes from a Skeptical Radical Behaviorist w/ Replies

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 2:23PM

I've started this with my original rant which you can read or reread or skip to get to the important point, the many thoughtful replies to this rant, posted below, in the order received.

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Sunday

Apr252010

Psy 3570: Autism Practicum: Final Feast, April 2010

Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 2:54PM

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Sunday

Apr252010

Street Music

Sunday, April 25, 2010 at 2:46PM

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Another sad day for behavior analysis. We’ve lost Løvaas.

“At 6 PM on August the 2nd, 2010, Professor Emeritus O. Ivar Løvaas, Ph.D., passed away quietly after a long battle with illness. He was surrounded by his closest family. There will be an official memorial service at the University of California, Los Angeles later this month.” Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh, Executive Director, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc. Unfortunately, Løvaas had had Alzheimer’s for the last few years. He was recovering from surgery on for a broken hip and got an infection when he died

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Notes from a Radical Behaviorist: Boobs Blog Part I

Boobs Blog Part I from Dick Malott on Vimeo.

Yes this is the sort of topic Dr. Richard W. Malott, PhD, BCBA-D discuss with his impressionable first-semester graduate students in their intense Conditioning and Learning course in his Behavioral Boot Camp in the Behavior Analysis Program of the Department of Psychology of Western Michigan University, located somewhere in Southwestern Michigan.

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Notes from a Skeptical Radical Behaviorist w/ Replies

I've started this with my original rant which you can read or reread or skip to get to the important point, the many thoughtful replies to this rant, posted below, in the order received.

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Psy 3570: Autism Practicum: Final Feast, April 2010

Street Music