Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted, repetitive or stereotyped behavior. For more information about the Kalamazoo Autism Center click here.
Monday, August 9, 2010 at 11:59AM 
Abstract
Este artigo aborda o significa de autismo, a etiologia do comportamento e dos valores autistas, o debate natureza-criação, contingências x genes, e a resistência a uma análise comportamental do autismo.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:10AM 
Note: Dick Malott's reactions are in ALL-CAPS.
Hi Dick,
We met briefly at this year's ABA when I bought one of your wonderful t-shirts. I confess that I have yet to wear it other than when concealed by another article of clothing but am working on that.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 10:03AM 
This article reviews the negative behavior-analytic commentary on Drash and Tudor’s behavior-analytic analysis of the etiology of autistic repertoires and values. This article also asks that, in our effort to scrub it clean, we not drown Drash and Tudor’s beautiful, but fragile, new-born, behavior-analytic baby in hyper-methodological, hyper-scholarly bathwater.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 9:52AM 
Prologue
I am a radical, fanatical behavior analyst who thinks he knows everything there is to know about the use and misuse of reinforcement contingencies. Two semesters ago, I started working with a beautiful, non-verbal 4-year-old boy in the preschool autism classroom at Croyden Avenue School—my first hands-on experience with these kids. And like all my students who do their practica there, I fell in love with my child.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 9:48AM 
Others have argued that we can justify the developmentally disabled spending some of their time as research subjects by considering it part of the tuition they pay. And we might make the same argument for college sophomores in Introductory Psych when they serve as subjects; however, we are obligated to provide the sophomores with an educationally valuable debriefing, in return for their participation. But I don't think the developmentally disabled get such an exchange. And often the institution doesn't get any pay off either.
Thursday, July 22, 2010 at 9:44AM 
Applied behavior analysis and autism are an amazing couple. Over 30 years ago, a clinical psychologist did some time at the University of Washington, the source of most of the early research on applied behavior analysis. Inspired and informed by his Washington training, the clinician went to LA and put his own spin on behavior analysis, as he started working with children whose behavioral repertoires had so many deficits of functional behavior and so many excesses of dysfunctional behavior that they were labeled autistic.
