Opening a New ABA Therapy Practice: Five Things to Avoid
It takes some serious courage to go it alone and start your own ABA therapy practice. Starting a solo practice can be one of the most rewarding experiences of your…
ABAI 2015 Conference Recap
The CentralReach team was on the scene at the ABA International 2015 Conference in San Antonio, TX this Memorial Day weekend. Many thanks to those who stopped by to visit…
Prevent Overbilling and Under-utilizing with CentralReach Authorizations Tool
Tracking authorizations to determine if you’re over-billing or under-utilizing staff can be time consuming and difficult if you’re using multiple systems. CentralReach makes it simple. We integrate scheduling, authorizations, billing,…
Is “Drill and Kill” the Only Kind of Practice?
Written by Rick Kubina What’s the point of practice? Is some practice good and some practice harmful? In education, wild misconceptions abound. A quick search of the web yields a…
The Record Ceiling: The Limitations of Interval Recording
Written by Rick Kubina In 1981, an important paper appeared in The Behavior Analyst titled Current measurement in applied behavior analysis. The paper reviewed the practice of using discontinuous time-based…
Agents of Precision: Overcoming the Challenge of Labeling Behaviors
Written by Rick Kubina Creating good pinpoints for data collection can sometimes be a daunting task. Pinpointing might take time, involve checking the dictionary, and sometimes include a healthy debate…
The Big Heart: Using Science + Caring to Improve Education (and the World)
Written by Rick Kubina Early in my career, someone taught me about a Precision Teaching concept called “the big heart.” Below see a rendition of what I learned. Figure 1….
A Homage to Og
Written by Rick Kubina What powers Chartlytics? Precision Teaching. And where did Precision Teaching come from? Ogden R. Lindsley (1922-2004). Before Og became the bow-tied, charming, creative force that brought…
How bizarre: The story of outliers
Written by Rick Kubina Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book on the subject. Statisticians tell us they are a mistake. And a brewing company claims it as their namesake. You guessed…
Do You Know Bounce? Understanding Behavior Through Performance Frequencies
Written by Rick Kubina Recently, I wrote about three features the world needs when understanding behavior change: celeration, bounce (variability), and outliers. We now turn our attention to bounce. Variability…
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