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Richard M. Kubina Jr.; Madeline Halkowski; Kirsten K. L. Yurich; Kimberly Ghorm; Nora M. Healy – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2024
Operational definitions have a significant history in applied behavior analysis. The practice's importance stems from the role operational definitions play in detecting an event, human thought, or action. While operationalizing target behaviors has enjoyed widespread practice, some concerns have recently arisen with translation validity and…
Descriptors: Identification, Accuracy, Definitions, Applied Behavior Analysis
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Ferguson, Julia L.; Milne, Christine M. – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
Leaf and colleagues (2016) provided a definition and description of progressive applied behavior analysis (ABA) in the context of autism treatment in which a behavior analyst takes a structured, yet flexible, approach to treatment that is responsive to the learner and includes on-going, in-the-moment analysis of teaching. Since Leaf and…
Descriptors: Definitions, Applied Behavior Analysis, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Therapy