Dr. Becky MacDonald, Senior Program Director, and Susan Langer, Chief Program Officer, recently published Teaching Essential Discrimination Skills to Children with Autism: A Practical Guide for Parents and Educators. Discrimination skills enable us to tell one object from another, understand that different things have different names, and use those names to perform a wide range
Research News -News and Notes About Scientific Research on ASD and Other Developmental and Behavioral Disorders - is edited by Bill Ahearn, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA and Eileen Roscoe, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA. It provides information about current research being conducted on autism generally and at NECC specifically, and includes articles on current scientific research on autism and other intellectual disabilities being
On Saturday, May 27, NECC staff and executives joined thousands of attendees at the 43rd Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, where CEO and Founder, Vincent Strully, Jr., accepted the prestigious SABA Award for International Dissemination of Behavior Analysis. NECC is one of only two organizations to receive the award in its
From May 25-29, NECC staff will present a significant number of research studies, symposia, workshops, and posters. The presentations will take place at ABAI’s 43rd Annual Convention in Denver, CO. Ahearn, W.H. (May 2017). Advancements in teaching play skills to children with autism spectrum disorder. Symposium to be discussed at ABAI’s 43rd Annual Convention, Denver,
NECC is presenting research at the 2017 APBA Convention in New Orleans, LA, on March 23-24. The Association of Professional Behavior Analysts (APBA) is a premier industry group for the advancement of applied behavior analysis (ABA). The following presentations will be given by NECC staff. Session times and locations are available in the APBA Convention program
Chata Dickson, Assistant Director of Research, ACE® Department (right), and collaborators Rachel Farber, a former NECC teacher, and Bill Dube, PhD, Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, published “Reducing overselective stimulus control with differential observing responses." The article was published in the most recent volume of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis. Abstract Overselective stimulus control refers to discriminative
