ABA Inside Track

I absolutely loved the insight from the COVID pandemic episode discussing ABA services in Italy. It provided valuable insight to a different culture of ABA and the importance of teaching ADLS.

In episode 2, host, and co-host conducted literature reviews while discussing hypothesis on “traditional pairing” and “discriminative stimulus pairing” (2016) pointing out the importance of identifying previous learner history in order to successfully acquire a new conditioned reinforcement. They utilize modern humor to keep listeners engaged while using common ABA language. A point I found amusing is how often we use conditioned reinforcers on a daily basis, for instance in our relationships or jobs. We, ourselves pair stimulus to a response creating reinforcers for ourselves and can easily replace that reinforcer with a newly conditioned one almost on demand. While reviewing two articles, this episode also gave the listener insight on research and different methods on evoking a conditioned response educating on the terminology and giving thorough analysis on both the research and future modifications for replication.

I actually started listening to this podcast while I was studying as an RBT. Now, that I’m a BCBA it’s great reuniting once again. This podcast is entertaining, humorous, and educational. Thanks for keeping me engaged from start to finish.

This podcast is okay for hearing about research on specific topics and it’s nice that you can get CEUs from it, but it’s so hard to listen to sometimes. They have so many random side conversations I don’t care about and occasionally they’re really cringe. I couldn’t even get past the intro of the Bilbo Baggins or whatever episode. The two female hosts are fine and pretty knowledgeable, but the male host makes me want to turn off the whole podcast sometimes. He’s rude and condescending to the women and sometimes to the guests. I think this would be a much easier listen without him.