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Practice: The Key to Success in School and Life

Written by Rick Kubina As the new school year approaches, parents and children engage in a familiar set of activities: school clothes shopping, school supply shopping, and checking out classroom…

Speeding Up Day Habilitation Service Delivery: A Handwriting Story

Written by Stuart Law, B.A., Tara Grant, M.S., Ryan O’Donnell, M.S., BCBA (Guest blog) In Reno, NV,  we support people in an activity-based day habilitation service from 1:1 to 8:1…

Four Books Everyone Interested in Behavior Change Should Read

Written by Rick Kubina At some level, everyone has a stake in changing and influencing behavior. In fact, we all do it every day. If you drive to work, every…

Three Simple Steps for Better Practice

Written by Rick Kubina Do you, someone you work with, or person you care about, engage in practice? If I had to guess I would say yes. People use practice…

4 Warning Signs of a Poorly Constructed Line Graph

Written by Rick Kubina The amount of statistical graphics generated worldwide staggers the mind. In his breakout book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983), Tufte reported between 900 billion…

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…

Never Blame the Learner: How to Address Behavioral Problems Effectively

Written by Rick Kubina Working with students with disabilities requires patience, compassion, precise measurement systems, and above all, powerful methods capable of producing remarkable change. When teachers lack any of…

Unlocking Behavior Change with Applied Experiments and the Phase Change Line

Written by Rick Kubina When applying the scientific method, people will manipulate or observe variables. A “variable” refers to any factor a scientist can control, change, or measure in an…

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…