Chirping with ABA Owls

May 1st and the first Monday of May! Here is part 2 of our ethics episode, a continuation from last month's. ******* Resources BACB Ethics Code Ethics in Life and Business What to know before posting pictures of your children online The problems and dangers of posting pictures of children on social media Sharenthood book website Reset podcast: Sharenting ******* Thank you for Listening! We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).  

Happy Monday! Here we are again with another episode. We've jumped into the ethics rabbit hole and decided to tackle a topic that is close to our hearts: posting pictures of children online. This is an area we've always been interested and discuss quite a lot, so we thought we should turn it into an episode! Part 2 will come out on the 1st May. ******* Here are some resources to keep you entertained! BACB Ethics Code Ethics in Life and Business What to know before posting pictures of your children online The problems and dangers of posting pictures of children on social media Sharenthood book website Reset podcast: Sharenting ******* Thank you for Listening! We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).  

Welcome back listeners, we hope you missed us! We’re kicking off the second part of season 3 with an episode on a very talked about topic in our field: TEACCH! We’ve decided to learn a bit more about this approach and its origins, so if you’re curious, join us. We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).   ---- Sources used in our research: https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/professional-development/the-teacch-approach https://teacch.com/about-us/ https://www.twinkl.co.uk/teaching-wiki/teacch  https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisprograms.com/faq/what-is-the-teacch-method/  

Welcome back listeners! In our January Hoots, Lauren will discuss some recommendations for those of you whom are doing their supervision hours, supervising others or even pursuing an education in ABA. The article used for this episode is: Helvey, C.I., Thuman, E. & Cariveau, T. (2021). Recommended Practices for Individual Supervision: Considerations for the Behavior-Analytic Trainee, Behavior Analysis in Practice (2022), 15, 370-381 https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs40617-021-00557-9 ----- Resources Article: National Library of Medicine https://sites.rutgers.edu/rucares/people/dr-casey-irwin-helvey/ https://uncw.edu/psy/about/faculty-cariveau.html ------- We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Our next episode will be in March as we will be taking a break in February. Thank you for Listening!

Happy New Year! We hope everyone is done with 2022 and ready to take 2023 on! As we've never done an episode on New Year's resolutions, we thought "no time like the present!". We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it!

A good Monday to you all!  For our December episode we have decided to dive back into our Training Staff series. We will be discussing how to use ABA to maintain staff skills.   We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).   Thank you so much for listening!

Hello all of you behaviour enthusiasts! Let’s wrap up another month with a study done in the natural environment. This time, Lauren will take you through a functional analysis conducted in mainstream classrooms. More specifically: Austin, J.L., Groves, E.A., Reynish, L.C. and Francis, L.L. (2015). Validating trial-based functional analyses in mainstream primary school classrooms. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 48(2), pp.274–288. doi:10.1002/jaba.208 --- Resources National Library of Medicine Research Gate Wiley Online Library A discrete-trial approach to the functional analysis of aggressive behaviour in two boys with autismSigafoos, J. and Saggers, E. (1995). A discrete-trial approach to the functional analysis of aggressive behaviour in two boys with autism. Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 20(4), pp.287–297. doi:10.1080/07263869500035621. Jennifer L. Austin----- We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Have a great week!

Happy November everyone! For this episode, we have invited Nicole to join us, she's a clinical psychologist and a BCBA. Nicole lives in Portugal and she gave us a reality check on what ABA looks like in her daily life. ----more---- Nicole is currently hiring, if you are interested you can visit: https://nurtureandnature.godaddysites.com/ https://www.facebook.com/nurtureenature/ informationABA@gmail.com ----more---- We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Have a great month!    

Happy October everyone! For today’s episode, we will be discussing The Checklist Manifesto, by Dr. Atul Gawande. Dive into the world of surgeries, aviation and construction with us, whilst using a checklist to navigate it all! ----more---- Resources and links  http://atulgawande.com/ https://www.who.int/news/item/11-12-2010-checklist-helps-reduce-surgical-complications-deaths https://www.who.int/news/item/04-12-2015-who-checklist-targets-major-causes-of-maternal-and-newborn-deaths-in-health-facilities https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0810119 ----more---- We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Thank you for listening!

Happy Pumpkin month! For this month's episode we thought we'd visit the supernatural world again, and how it relates to ABA. ----more---- Links and books we mentioned in the episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Bishop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_Suppression_Act,_1957 The crucible by Arthur Miller Witches, Midwives and Nurses, by Barbara Ehrenreich ----more---- We hope you’ll enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). We hope you enjoy this episode just as much as we enjoyed recording it!  

Welcome back listeners! This month, Lauren will take us a bit deeper into PECS and how it works. We have discussed PECS before (in our 2020 November's episode), this episode is done from the perspective of having done PECS level 1 course. ----more---- Resources and links mentioned in the episode: https://pecs.com/ ----more---- We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). ----more---- Thank you for listening!

A good Monday to you all! For this episode, we have invited Denis to join us for a chat.  He has worked with young people for most of his life and has come across the ABA world in the last few years. We hope you enjoy hearing about his perspective on ABA. ----more---- We hope you enjoy this episode just as much as we enjoyed recording it. Please feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).

Welcome back listeners! For our May episode we have decided to thoughts! We delve into the topic of what are overt and covert behaviours and it's relevance in the field of behaviour analysis. ----more----We hope you enjoy this episode, feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). Thank you for listening! ----more---- Resources: Zillo, D. (2016). Who, What and When: Skinner's Critiques of Neuroscience and His Main Targets. Association for Behaviour Analysts International, 39 (2), 197-218. doi: 10.1007/s40614-016-0053-x Article link ----more----

We're back! To kick off the second part of Season 2, we will be discussing the GROW Model.   On the episode we do reference some websites and articles, so we've added them to the episode's blurb for your ease. Thank you for listening! ----more---- https://www.performanceconsultants.com/grow-model

Happy New Year!! To kick off this year, we will be starting a new series of episodes about staff training. This episode is an introduction to the topic and future episodes will be more detailed in each area of staff training. ----more---- We hope you enjoy listening and please send us any feedback, queries or suggestions you might have to aba.owls.uk@gmail.com or message us on instagram @aba_owls. ----more---- Thank you for listening!

Happy Monday! It is December, the most "wonderful" (stressful) time of the year. We hope our Q&A with our friend and colleague Amy will put a smile on your face. Please send us any questions you might have for future Q&A episodes. You can reach us on aba.owls.uk@gmail.com, instagram @aba_owls or on our website www.abaowls.com   Thank you for listening!

Happy October! Autumn has arrived and so has our new episode! This month, in honour of Halloween, we tackle superstitious behaviour and look at it from a behaviour analyst's point of view. We hope you enjoy!

Welcome back! After having a break we've returned with a new episode. In this month's episode we discuss what is science and why does ABA fit in that category. We hope you enjoy =)

Hello everyone! For our second episode we look into the reasons why we feel ABA is effective and give you a variety of examples from our personal experience in the field. As mentioned on the podcast: - https://www.abaa4all.com/ - Positive Parenting for Autism, Victoria Boone www.abaowls.com aba.owls.uk@gmail.com  

Hey everyone, just a quick message about the podcast - we will be taking a break until the end of the year to plan and create newer content! Feel free to keep in touch! Instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com).   Carla and Lauren