Newsletter
Volume 29 | 2006 | Number 2
Icelandic ABA
By Ragnar S. Ragnarsson, Chairman; Guðný Stefánsdóttir, Secretary; and Ãris Ãrnadóttir, Treasurer
The Icelandic Association for Behavior Analysis (ICEABA) was founded August 15, 2004. At the foundation ceremony, Dr. Charles Catania gave an address and was unanimously declared ICEABA's first honorary member. ICEABA is a forum for people interested in the growth and development of behavior analysis in Iceland. ICEABA's goals are to disseminate and promote behavior analysis, support behavior analytic research, communicate with and support students interested in the field, correspond with behavior analytic associations around the world, and to support the establishment of a union of behavior analysts.
Currently ICEABA has 36 members, consisting of students, teachers, social facilitators, psychologists, parents, and behavior analysts. ICEABA's first year was devoted to meeting formal requirements associated with the foundation as well as announcing its existence to ABA and similar associations in Europe. Last August, ICEABA organized a workshop with Beth Wheeler and Theresa McKeon from TAGteach International who taught 35 participants to use clickers effectively to increase the frequency and precision of human behavior.
Among ICEABA's current and future projects are constructing and publishing the first Icelandic glossary on behavior analytic terms, and creating a directory of behavior analytic research and publications written by Icelandic behavior analysts and students. Currently, the list consists of 130 references. Constructing the glossary is an important step in making behavior analysis easily available to the 300,000 Icelandic speakers. The glossary and the directory will be available free of charge to the public on ICEABA’s Web site, www.atferli.is, scheduled to launch later this year. ICEABA’s members primarily communicate via a discussion board http://groups.yahoo.com/group/isabar/ that has generated 3,340 messages since its foundation in October 1999.