Newsletter
Volume 32 | 2009 | Number 1
Convention Highlights from the ABAI Practice and Science Boards
ABAI is pleased to recommend events in the program that were created as a result of strategic development efforts within its Practice and Science Boards and with the support and dedicated work of Chairs and members of their various committees.
The Practice Board focuses on matters of interest to agencies and providers of behavior analysis services. The Board’s mission is to meet the needs of ABAI members and members of its affiliated chapters providing behavior analytic services to various constituencies consistent with the scientific foundations of behavior analysis. Committees managed by the Practice Board are the Continuing Education Committee, developing standards for provision of continuing education for licensed behavior analysts to permit continuation of licensure per individual state requirements; the Governmental Affairs Committee, representing the interests of practicing applied behavior analysts in governmental matters at both the Federal and state level; the Licensure Committee, pursuing licensure for applied behavior analysis practitioners; and the Committee on Research in Practice, investigating the state of practice, practitioner needs of behavior analysts, service recipients’ needs, and evaluation of outcomes provided by behavior analysts with different credentials as well as by non-behavior analysts.
The Science Board’s primary purpose is to promote research in behavior analysis. ABAI is committed to promoting excellence in basic behavior-analytic research and encouraging translation of fundamental research into the highest quality behavior-analytic practice. Such translational research is a distinctive strength of behavior analysis, and has emerged as a key priority in funding agencies. To underscore the importance of translational research to our discipline, this year’s convention will include a special program track, Translating Basic Science to Application, emphasizing the cross-relations between science and practice.
Co-sponsored by the ABAI Science and Practice Boards, the keynote events in this track will be a pair of symposia addressing a particular topic from its basic science to its application. These keynote sessions follow in the model of last year’s highly successful State of the Science Lectures, designed to provide integrative and accessible overviews of a given area of research and application.
Science/Practice Board Co-sponsored Events
The following translational events are co-sponsored by the ABAI Science and Practice Boards.
Symposium: Behavioral Momentum: Translational Research and Practice
EAB; Experimental Analysis
Chair: Timothy D. Hackenberg (University of Florida)
Saturday, May 23; 1:00 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.; North 228
Stimuli, Reinforcers, and the Persistence of Behavior. JOHN A. NEVIN (University of New Hampshire)
Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior (DRA): Some Perverse Effects and How to Avoid Them. F. CHARLES MACE (University of Southern Maine)
The Effects of Stimulus Control on the Persistence of Negatively-Reinforced Problem Behavior and Compliance. JENNIFER J. MCCOMAS (University of Minnesota)
Symposium: Stimulus Control in Autism: Translational Research and Practice
AUT; Applied Behavior Analysis
Chair and Discussant: Travis Thompson (University of Minnesota)
Sunday, May 24; 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.; North 120 BC
Translational Behavior Analysis: From Laboratory Research to Intervention for Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders. WILLIAM J. MCILVANE (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Verbal Behavior: A Bridge Between the Conceptual, Experimental, and Applied Areas of Behavior Analysis. MARK L. SUNDBERG (Sundberg and Associates)
Using Motivational Orienting Cues to Facilitate First-Word Acquisition in Non-Responders with Autism. ROBERT L. KOEGEL, Larisa Shirotova, and Lynn Kern Koegel (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Science Board Events
In addition to the co-sponsored keynote sessions with the Practice Board, the ABAI Science Board is sponsoring several additional sessions on the theme of translational science. These sessions are designed to illuminate the reciprocal relations between science and practice, spanning the continuum from laboratories to applied settings.
Symposium: Science Board Translational Series: Lessons of Stimulus Relations Research for Creating Lessons for Sophisticated Learners
EDC; Applied Behavior Analysis
Chair: Thomas S. Critchfield (Illinois State University)
Saturday, May 23; 2:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.; North 122 BC
Examining the Generalization and Retention of Equivalence Relations Consisting of Course Content in the Undergraduate Rehabilitation Services Major. RUTH ANNE REHFELDT, Brooke Diane Walker, and Yors A. Garcia (Southern Illinois University)
Generalization, Perceptual Classes, and Equivalence Classes: Their Intersection and Applications. LANNY FIELDS and Patricia A. Moss (Queens College and The Graduate Center of CUNY)
Using Contextual Control to Promote “Conditional Reasoning” in Hypothesis Decision Making. THOMAS S. CRITCHFIELD (Illinois State University) and Daniel Mark Fienup (The May Institute)
Web-Based Accelerated Acquisition of Complex Mathematical Relations: An Artificial Neural
Network Approach. CHRIS NINNESS, Jennifer McGinty, Robin Rumph, Glen L. McCuller (Stephen F. Austin State University), and Sharon K. Ninness (Nacogdoches ISD)
Symposium: Science Board Translational Series: Delay Discounting and Drug Abuse
BPH; Experimental Analysis
Chair and Discussant: Amy Odum (Utah State University)
Saturday, May 23; 3:30 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.;
North 226 C
Shared Heritability of Delay Discounting and Alcohol Abuse. SUZANNE H. MITCHELL and Clare J. Wilhelm (Oregon Health & Science University)
Impulsivity, a Predictor and Outcome of Drug Abuse: Animal Models. MARILYN E. CARROLL and Justin J. Anker (University of Minnesota), Jennifer L. Newman (McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School), Jami L. Mach (University of Minnesota), and Jennifer L. Perry (Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation)
Delay Discounting: Comparison with Other Measures in the Prediction of Smoking Treatment Outcomes. WARREN K. BICKEL, Darren R. Christensen, Richard Y , Christine E. Sheffer, Lisa Jackson, and Reid D. Landes (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences), John E. McGeary (Brown University), and James MacKillop (University of Georgia)
Symposium: Science Board Translational
Series: History and Current Status of
Translational Research in Behavioral
Economics
EAB; Experimental Analysis
Chair and Discussant: Gregory P. Hanley (Western New England College)
Sunday, May 24; 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.; North 226 AB
Behavioral Economics in the Clinic: Translational Research on Substitutability, Demand, and Unit Price in the Treatment of Behavior Disorders. ISER GUILLERMO DELEON, Michelle A. Frank, Mandy M. Triggs, Abbey Carreau, Meagan Gregory, and Melissa J. Allman (Kennedy Krieger Institute
Preliminary Analyses of Price Manipulations: Commodity Type and Cost-benefit Constituents. JOHN C. BORRERO (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Christopher E. Bullock (University of Nebraska Medical Center), and Michelle A. Frank and Nicole Lynn Hausman (Kennedy Krieger Institute)
Behavioral Economics in the Lab: Delay Discounting, Drug Taking, and Pathological Gambling. GREGORY J. MADDEN, Adam T. Brewer, Patrick S. Johnson, and Jonathan W. Pinkston (University of Kansas) and James H. Woods (University of Michigan)
Symposium: Science Board Translational Series: The Science and Practice of Discrete-Trial Training
AUT; Applied Behavior Analysis
Chair and Discussant: Kathryn Saunders (University of Kansas)
Sunday, May 24; 10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.; North 120 BC
Why Some Procedures for Teaching Arbitrary-Matching-to-Sample Are More Effective Than Others. KATHRYN SAUNDERS (University of Kansas)
Strategies for Generating Arbitrary Match-to-Sample Performances. CAROL PILGRIM (University of North Carolina - Wilmington)
Modeling “Joint Abstraction” in Conditional Discrimination Procedures. WILLIAM J. MCILVANE (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
Symposium: Science Board Translational
Series: Choice
EAB; Experimental Analysis
Chair and Discussant: Randolph C. Grace (University of Canterbury)
Monday, May 25; 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.;
North 226 AB
Constructive or Antisocial Behavior: Doing What Works. JAMES SNYDER (Wichita State
University)
From Human Social Behavior in Natural Environments to the Laboratory and Back. JACK J. MCDOWELL (Emory University)
Principles of Choice and Their Applications. EDMUND J. FANTINO (University of California, San Diego), Stephanie S. Stolarz-Fantino (University of California, San Diego)
Symposium: Science Board Translational Series: Laboratory and Applied Perspectives on Token Reinforcement
EAB; Experimental Analysis
Chair and Discussant: Timothy D. Hackenberg (University of Florida)
Monday, May 25; 2:00 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.;
North 225
Token Reinforcement in the Laboratory and Beyond. TIMOTHY D. HACKENBERG (University of Florida)
Token Economies in Applied Settings: Suggestions for Bidirectional Interaction Along the Basic-Applied Continuum. JOHN C. BORRERO (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Voucher-Based Token Reinforcement in the Treatment of Drug Addiction. KENNETH SILVERMAN (Johns Hopkins University)
Practice Board Events
In addition to the keynote sessions co-sponsored with the Science Board, the ABAI Practice Board is offering several additional sessions highlighting the efforts being pursued on behalf of practice and practitioners.
Business Meeting: ABAI Governmental Affairs Committee
Chair: Michael F. Dorsey (The Vinfen Corporation and Endicott College)
Saturday, May 24; 7:00 p.m. - 7:50 p.m.;
North 224 A
An open business meeting of the Governmental Affairs Committee to update ABAI members on the legislative agenda for ABAI for the coming year.
Symposium: State of Practice in Behavior Analysis
OTH; Applied Behavior Analysis
Chair: Maria E. Malott (Association for Behavioral Analysis International)
Sunday, May 24; 2:30 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.;
North 120 D
Practitioner Trends among ABAI Members.
MARIA E. MALOTT (Association for Behavioral Analysis International)
Consumer Assessments of ABA Services. MICHAEL DOUGHER (University of New Mexico)
Who Will Train Qualified Behavior Analysts in the Future? R. DOUGLAS GREER (Columbia University Graduate School and Teachers
College)
Special Event: Legal Reform and Autism: How to Shape Public Policy
Chair: Jonathan J. Tarbox (Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Inc.)
Sunday, May 24; 4:00 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.;
North 120 D
LORRI UNUMB (Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel, Autism Speaks)
Panel Discussion: Licensing of Behavior Analysis: Protecting the Profession and the Public
OTH; Service Delivery
Chair: Michael Weinberg (Orlando Behavior Health Services, LLC)
Monday, May 25; 4:00 p.m. – 4:50 p.m.;
North 120 D
MICHAEL F. DORSEY (The Vinfen Corporation and Gordon College)
THOMAS L. ZANE (Sage Colleges)
MICHAEL WEINBERG (Orlando Behavior Health Services, LLC)