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Watson & Rayner "Little Albert"
Watson & Rayner (1920)Watson and Rayner's famous paper in which they attempted to create conditioned aversive stimuli. This marked an early example of conditioning with humans. -
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Kanner defines Autism
Leo Kanner, a Jewish American psychiatrist published his paper that outlined the main symptoms of and defined Autism.
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First Degree Program in Behavior Analysis: Columbia University
History of teachers college
The opening of the teachers college at Columbia marked one of the few options available for an education in behavior analysis at that time on the East Coast. Florida and Western Michigan had degree programs, but there were not many options on the other side of the US. -
Fuller
Operant Conditioning of a Vegetative Human Organism Fuller's paper marked the first published useage of operant procedures, derived in laboratory settings with animals, to a human organism with disabilities. An 18 year old man with severe phsyical/intellectual disabilitie who had been hospitalized his entire life and was reported to have never learned anything, was taught to raise his arm to a horizontal position. A reversal design showed control. -
Boulder Conference: Science-Practitioner Models
an interesting philisophical paper on the modelThe science-practitioner model or the "Boulder Model" is a training model for graduate programs that focuses on creating a foundation based on research and scientific practice. Orginigally designed to train clinical psychologists and members of APA, it has branched out and been adapted for other specialties. According to the model, we as psychologists should be a scientist and competent researcher as well as a practitioner who applies techniques to solve the problems of our clients. -
JEAB Founded
Frustrated with the lack of interest in publishing studies that stressed the behavior change of individual organisms by the current journals (Journal of Experimental Psychology), a group of operant researchers set out to start a new journal. Charles B. Ferster would become the founding editor. You can read more about this here: -
Ferster
Ferster paperThe Development of Performances in Autistic Children in an Automatically Controlled Environment
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Wolf, Risley & Mees
Wolf, Risley & Mees (1964)Application of operant conditioning procedures to the behaviour problems of an autistic child
This paper is an example of some of the very early useage of techniques derived directly from operant conditioning in a lab, being applied to the behavior of a child with Autism. -
JABA was founded
JABA
The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis was founded, which served as a peer-edited outlet for scientists and practicioners to share their work. -
Behaviorism Founded
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Lovaas
Lovaas (1973)In an attempt to determine skills that may remediate autism, Dr. Lovaas tried to teach language skills to children with Autism. -
ABAI founded
ABAIThat Association for Behavior Analysis International was founded. This led to the coming together of scientist practitioners all over the world to share their work and ideas. -
ABAI Presidential Debates
The ABAI presidential debates on Application and Analysis -
Fenske
Fenske (1985)
This article looked at comparisons between children with Autism under and beyond the age of 60 months in an intensive treatment program and determined that the EARLY part of intervention is key to maximizing positive outcomes. -
Lovaas
This is the ground breaking study that showed that early intensive ABA treatment proved much more effective than less substantial treatment packages. Almost half of the participants in the intervention group lost their diagnosies of autism. -
FEAT founded
FEAT
FEAT is a non-profit organization of parents, family members, and treatment professionals dedicated to
providing best outcome Education, Advocacy and Support for the Northern California Autism Community -
"Let Me Hear Your Voice"
A mother of two children diagnosed with autism writes about her family's experience from finding out about the diagnosis and the bleak prognosis that it entails, all the way through both of her kids "losing" the diagnosis. This was a huge turning point in this timeline because parents now had hope and became advocates for their own children. This book started a wave of parent advocacy in which the families really drove the course of the treatment rather than the therapists. -
Sackett
Sackett (1996)
a tutorial on evidence-based medicine -
ASAT founded
ASAT
Association for Science in Autism Treatment is interested in sharing scientifically accurate information about Autism with the worldwide community -
New York Parameters established
New York Parameters Established -
Satcher Surgeon General Report
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Satcher Surgeon General Report -
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National Behavior Analysis Certification Board Established
The Board for Certification of Behavior Analysts was established. This helped to create a standard of the level of competency a person must have in ABA to practice with kids with Autism. -
BCBA Doctoral Designation
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APBA founded
APBA websiteAssociation of Professional Behavior Analysts was founded
