Inside Behavior Analysis
Volume 1 | 2009 | Number 2 | On-line ISSN: 2151-4704
New Zealand ABA
By Douglas Elliffe
The 6th Annual Conference of the New Zealand Association for Behaviour Analysis (NZABA) was hosted by The University of Auckland from August 28-30. The conference was the largest yet, with 28 graduate students and 14 faculty members and practitioners presenting a total of 41 papers, including 9 posters. The six New Zealand universities that carry out behaviour-analytic research were all represented, and we were delighted to hear papers from visitors Steve Provost (Southern Cross University, Australia) and Takayuki Sakagami (Keio University, Japan).
Prizes for the best student papers were won by Nathalie Boutros (EAB: The Characterization of Conditional Reinforcers) and Rebecca Sharp (ABA: Modified Incidental Teaching With Lag Schedules of Reinforcement to Increase Variable Manding in a Child With Expressive Language Deficits), both of The University of Auckland.
NZABA's 7th Annual Conference will be hosted by Canterbury University, Christchurch, around the end of August 2010. For details nearer the time, and for abstracts of papers from the 2009 conference, visit www.nzaba.org.