Feeding Intervention: Stuffing and Expelling

Hi and welcome to Ask Missy Mondays where I respond to email questions from readers who have questions about behavior. Today’s question comes from Bobby’s mom. In case you are new to our blog, we wrote about Bobby last year. You may read his story here. Bobby’s mom asked, “Bobby is over-stuffing his mouth with [...]

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Children Do Not Outgrow Autism!

One of the popular topics this week has been the discussion about children outgrowing their autism diagnosis. If you have missed these discussions, you may catch yourself up by visiting here, here, and here. Before we jump in to the original article on which all of this discussion is based, we would like to point [...]

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Upcoming Continuing Education and Parent Education

We are pleased to announce our schedule of upcoming webinars for the spring! Please join us for your continuing education needs. Contact us if you have questions: info at appliedbehavioralstrategies dot com. Additionally, we are pleased to announce a free webinar for parents on using the iPad for communication, language, and academic instruction. The webinar [...]

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Toddler Crying, Whining, and Tantrumming

Hi and welcome to Ask Missy Mondays where I respond to email questions from readers who have questions about behavior. Today’s question comes from Jillian and J.D. who ask, “We have 2 children ages 2 and 4. They are driving us batty with their crying, whining, and tantrumming! Seriously, I cannot even get in the [...]

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Teacher Training on Student Behavior

We love sharing funny cartoons about behavior with our readers. This one is hysterical! Teachers, how many of you have felt like this? Parents, have you ever wish your children came with a manual?

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Young Children’s Thoughts on Timeout

Here at Applied Behavioral Strategies, we try to review a research article on a hot topic for our readers. Because a timeout room procedure in Connecticut has received quite a bit of attention lately, it seems timely to review another study about timeout. Christine Readdick and Paula Chapman authored the article called, Young Children’s Perceptions [...]

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When Timeout Didn’t Work

Hi and welcome to “What Works Wednesdays” where we share a success story from one of our clinical cases. Our intent is to show readers how successful ABA can be. Today’s success story is not about a clinical case but rather a personal case. As some of our readers may know, Missy has a brother [...]

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Timeout Rooms: Still a Bad Idea

In 1978, Dr. Richard Foxx, along with his co-author Shapiro, stated, “Despite the impressive record of the timeout procedure in recent years, some school districts and institutions have chosen never to adopt, abolish, or greatly restrict its use for a variety of reasons.” The authors went on to list the reasons behind the concern over [...]

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Research on Scream Rooms (Timeout Rooms)

Hi and welcome to Ask Missy Mondays where I respond to email questions from readers who have questions about behavior. Today’s question comes from two reporters who interviewed me for follow-up articles they were writing about the Scream Rooms (also known as Timeout Rooms) here in Connecticut. One reporter asked, “Is there any research to [...]

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Alternatives to Time Out Rooms

One of our goals for improving the quality of lives through effective intervention is to share with our readers research on effective treatments. We do this by summarizing peer-reviewed research articles. Yesterday, in response to our post on Scream Rooms (also known as Time Out Rooms), a twitter follower asked, “what else can teachers do?” [...]

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