{"id":250,"date":"2016-09-15T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.behavioralobservations.com\/?p=250"},"modified":"2017-06-10T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T13:08:58","slug":"session-12-mary-barbera-verbal-behavior-approach-writing-practices-ongoing-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/behavioralobservations.com\/be_obs\/session-12-mary-barbera-verbal-behavior-approach-writing-practices-ongoing-education","title":{"rendered":"Session 12: Mary Barbera on The Verbal Behavior Approach, Writing Practices, Ongoing Education, and More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Session 12 of <em>The Behavioral Observations Podcast<\/em> features an in-depth conversation with Mary Lynch Barbera, BCBA-D. In this episode, we talk about a wide range of topics including, but not limited to,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her pre-ABA career as a nurse (which actually involved quite a bit of OBM work!).<\/li>\n<li>How she learned about behavior analysis, and how her advocacy for her son led her to becoming a BCBA.<\/li>\n<li>The motivation behind writing her best-selling book, <em>The Verbal Behavior Approach<\/em>, and creating her e-course, <em>Autism ABA Help: Online Training for Professionals and Gung-Ho Parents<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>What her writing practices are, and how best to avoid, \u201cthe curse of knowledge,\u201d when communicating behavioral principles with lay people.<\/li>\n<li>Her thoughts on some recent workshops from the recent National Autism Conference at Penn State University.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mary shares <strong><em>tons<\/em><\/strong> of resources in this episode, so for the purposes of brevity, I've put them in a bullet list below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mary's website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marybarbera.com\">www.marybarbera.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/autism.outreach.psu.edu\">The National Autism Conference at Penn State University<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/stat.vueinnovations.com\/about\">STAT assessment<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pattan.net\">The Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dr. Espinosa's talk on Theory of Mind<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Brian Iwata's talk on Automatically Reinforced Problem Behaivor<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuance.com\/support\/dragon-naturallyspeaking\/index.htm\">Dragon Naturally Speaking<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amyporterfield.com\">Amy Porterfield's website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Millionaire-Messenger-Difference-Fortune-Sharing\/dp\/1451665997\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1473972629&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+millionaire+messenger\">The Millionaire Messenger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pandasnetwork.org\">The PANDAS network<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Coupon code for Mary's e-course BEHAVIORPOD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This podcast is sponsored by bSci21.org. bSci21.org is your go-to ABA news site. The companion article for this episode is called, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsci21.org\/i-is-just-a-bit-of-verbal-behavior\/\">\u201cI\u201d is just a bit of Verbal Behavior<\/a><\/em>, by Dr. Scott Herbst.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/4671020\/height\/360\/width\/640\/theme\/standard-mini\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/no-cache\/true\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session 12 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast features an in-depth conversation with Mary Lynch Barbera, BCBA-D. 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