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

Hello there! For this month, Lauren will guide us through a very fascinating book, Zero Degrees of Empathy by Simon Baron-Cohen.   As always, we appreciate you listening and we hope you’ve enjoy this episode. Please feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). ------

Hello! Did you miss us? We hope so! For June, we invited our friend and colleague Amy to join us again! The topic for this episode is PBS (Positive Behaviour Support), what is is, how it's done, where is it applied, etc. ----more---- Here are some resources mentioned on the episode: Johnston, J. S., Foxx, R. M., Jacobson, J. W., Green, G., & Mulick, J. A. (2006). Positive behavior support and applied behavior analysis. Behavior Analyst, 29(1), 51–74. ISBA (Irish Society for Behavior Analysis)----more---- Thank you for listening! We'll be back in July with another ABA Owls episode!    

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! This month it's Lauren's turn to guide us through some reading materials, and the book of today is The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida. Thank you for listening, we hope you’ve enjoy this episode. Please feel free to contact us on instagram (@aba_owls), via email (aba.owls.uk@gmail.com) or through our website (www.abaowls.com). The Hoot Chronicles will return on May 15th! ------ Resources & Links https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/175207/naoki-higashida/https://davidmitchellbooks.com/about-david-mitchell

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 to The Hoot Chronicles! For this episode, Carla will discuss some research articles that address different areas of applying the VB-MAPP (Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program by Mark Sundberg). ** Here are our sources for the articles: Barnes, C. S., Mellor, J. D., & Rehfeldt, R. A. (2014). Implementing the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP): Teaching Assessment Techniques. The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 30(1), 36–47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40616-013-0004-5 Padilla, K. L., & Akers, J. S. (2021). Content Validity Evidence for the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51(11), 4054–4066. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04864-y Narayan, S., & Srikanth, G. (2020, July). Telehealth as a Parent Training Platform:a Behavioral Development approach to Autism Intervention. IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education, 10(4), 48-54. DOI: 10.9790/7388-1004044854 **** Our next Hoots episode will be out on Monday 17th of April. 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 month!  

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-approachhttps://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 ----- ResourcesArticle: National Library of Medicinehttps://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!

Hello Hello! For today’s episode, we will be discussing Teaching Children with Autism to Mind Read, by Patricia Howlin, Simon Baron-Cohen and Julie Hadwin. If you would like to teach emotions to a learner, this book is a good guide to read.   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)   Happy Holidays and see you next year!

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!    

Trick or Treat! Our episode today is us discussing our favourite witches - no ABA involved. Happy Halloween!

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_Bishophttps://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!  

Happy Monday everyone, For this month, Lauren will walk us through a study done on engaging individuals with dementia - more specifically: Increasing activity attendance and engagement in individuals with dementia using descriptive prompts by Brenske et al., 2008, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. ----more---- Resources https://brightbehaviorinc.com  Brenske, S., Rudrud, E. H., Schulze, S. A. & Rapp, J. T. (2008). Increasing Activity Attendance and Engagement in Individuals with Dementia Using Descriptive Prompts. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 41 (2), 273-277. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2008.41-273 Article sources: National Library of Medicine and Research Gate----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). Have a great month!

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!