Neurodiversity – Origins and Impact
By Katherine Johnson. M.S., BCBASenior Director of Partnerships, LEARN Behavioral Judy Singer is an autistic Australian social scientist. In the 1990’s, seeing echoes of her mother’s struggles in [...]
Addressing Health Equity in ABA Treatment Part I: A Black Mother’s Experience
LEARN is committed to fostering a culture that embraces what makes us each unique—be it race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, [...]
BHCOE Accreditation: Understanding How Quality Care is Measured in ABA
Sara Litvak, Founder & CEO of Behavioral Health Center of Excellence, the only ABA-specific accrediting body joins us to discuss the different ways quality is measured in the accreditation [...]
How Parents and Caregivers of Kids with Autism Cope with Stress
by Katherine Johnson, M.S., BCBASenior Director of Partnerships, LEARN Behavioral Parenting can be stressful, and research shows that parents of autistic children consistently score higher on [...]
Voices for All: Ash Franks Talks about Supporting Autistic People While Being Autistic and Her Role on LEARN’s New Neurodiversity Advisory Committee
In September 2020, LEARN convened a group of neurodivergent staff to form our Neurodivergent Advisory Committee. The committee reviews and gives feedback on matters relating to neurodiversity and [...]
What is Contemporary ABA?
RONIT MOLKO, PH.D., BCBA-DSTRATEGIC ADVISOR, LEARN BEHAVIORAL It has been said that history is written by the victors. The colonists won the American Revolution, and so the war has been cast as a [...]
Women Leaders at LEARN Talk About Working in STEM—and Why Behavior Analysts Sometimes Get Left Out
Most of us in the autism field know that women make up the bulk of board certified behavior analysts (BCBAs). In fact, women represent 85.43 percent of BCBAs, according to the Behavior [...]
Perspectives: Why Access to ABA Is a Matter of Social Justice
BY NATHAN FRANKLINMANAGING BEHAVIORAL TREATMENT TECHNICIAN, WEAP, MILWAUKEE As our country starts the process of distributing vaccines for COVID-19 and re-opening our cities, many people are [...]
Top 5 Autism Studies from the Last Year
Significant developments were made in autism and applied behavior analysis (ABA) research in the field of autism and applied behavior analysis (ABA) in 2021. Learn about the top five studies from [...]