Review the following sections, and address each element in your initial discussion forum post: Information Literacy and Research From reading this portion of the case study, list the stage(s) of the research process that your candidate demonstrates. Explain how the candidate's sources and information searching can be impacted by bias. Predict one form of bias that could impact your candidate. Share how that form of bias might be impacting your candidate and your own research. Authority and Accuracy elements of the CRAAPO test Explain why (or why not) the sources pass the authority and accuracy elements of the CRAAPO test. In other words, Who is the author? If there is no author, which organization is responsible for the content? Why is the author qualified to write on this topic? Is there contact information, such as a publisher or an email address? Does the URL reveal anything about the author or source (for example, .com, .edu, .gov, .org, .net)? Evidence provided to…

Bailey and Burch 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Behavior Analysts.   It’s a gift giving holiday season. (You can choose the holiday.)  A parent and his three children, one of whom is a child with autism, bake dozens of cookies.  Once they’re cooled, they place two dozen cookies into tins, and on the tins they put cards for the Letter Carrier, Pediatrician, Occupational Therapist, Behavior Analyst, Physical Therapist, and each of the children’s Teachers.  The day after the gift giving holiday, all of the tins are gone except one – the tin with the card for the Behavior Analyst, because the Behavior Analyst explained that she is not permitted by her code of ethics to accept gifts of any kind, even when made by the four year old girl with autism she’s serving, and even when offered by this cute child and her siblings with angelic smiles on their faces, and even when the parent has practiced with the child with autism saying “for you” for several weeks, with the child saying this…

It’s a gift giving holiday season. (You can choose the holiday.) A parent and his three children, one of whom is a child with autism, bake dozens of cookies.  Once they’re cooled, they place two dozen cookies into tins, and on the tins they put cards for the Letter Carrier, Pediatrician, Occupational Therapist, Behavior Analyst, Physical Therapist, and each of the children’s Teachers.  The day after the gift giving holiday, all of the tins are gone except one – the tin with the card for the Behavior Analyst, because the Behavior Analyst explained that she is not permitted by her code of ethics to accept gifts of any kind, even when made by the four year old girl with autism she’s serving, and even when offered by this cute child and her siblings with angelic smiles on their faces, and even when the parent has practiced with the child with autism saying “for you” for several weeks, with the child saying this when she offers the tin of cookies. How would you handle this situation?

Bailey and Burch 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Behavior Analysts. Chapter 8. Think of a characteristic as a label for a repertoire of behaviors.  For each of those characteristics you listed, what behaviors would you need to see in order to say the person has that characteristic?  What behaviors would lead you to say that person doesn’t have that characteristic?

Bailey and Burch 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Behavior Analysts. Chapter 8. The first step to good communication is likability.  That seems pretty simple, but there’s a ton of stuff that goes into likability – and a lot of ways we can sabotage our own likability. What characteristics make a coworker, consultant, or salesperson (because, as behavior analysts, we are salespeople) likeable? Think of a characteristic as a label for a repertoire of behaviors.  For each of those characteristics you listed, what behaviors would you need to see in order to say the person has that characteristic?  What behaviors would lead you to say that person doesn’t have that characteristic?

Bailey and Burch 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Behavior Analysts. Chapter 11. You are all in training to become BCBAs.  You will all complete this program, complete your supervision, pass the exam, and become certified and licensed.  Public speaking is an important skill for new professionals.  What I sometimes do is actually have students put together 1 or 2 hour workshops for parents, teachers, instructional assistants, or others on a very specific topic.  In this brief course, we don’t have time for this.  What I would like you to do, though, is this: Within your group, plan a 2 hour workshop for parents of children with autism on how to establish instructional control. Develop the instructional objectives of the workshop. My advice – teach a few things and teach them well! Determine where you will offer this free workshop You don’t have a budget – where are there free meeting spaces? How would you reserve one? Determine how you would publicize the workshop You…

Bailey and Burch 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Behavior Analysts. Chapter 10. You are a clinical supervisor at an agency serving people with autism.  You have found the RBTs you supervise to be very capable, and to do great work.  If there’s one thing you could change about their work, though, it would be their timeliness with their graphing and daily narrative notes.  Each sees six clients per day, and each either truncates the session by 10 minutes to work on documentation at the end of the session (even though the clients could really use that time with their therapist), or they save their paperwork until the end of the day (and sometimes don’t get around to it before leaving).  You overhear one of them saying that she wishes the Practice Director would give them one paid hour to spend on completing documentation for each hour of client service, because they currently don’t get paid for doing this, and now they either take up client time or they save it for the end of the…

The first step to good communication is likability.  That seems pretty simple, but there’s a ton of stuff that goes into likability – and a lot of ways we can sabotage our own likability. What characteristics make a coworker, consultant, or salesperson (because, as behavior analysts, we are salespeople) likeable? Think of a characteristic as a label for a repertoire of behaviors.  For each of those characteristics you listed, what behaviors would you need to see in order to say the person has that characteristic?  What behaviors would lead you to say that person doesn’t have that characteristic?

Bailey and Burch 25 Essential Skills and Strategies for Behavior Analysts. Chapter 9. On pages 100 and 101, Drs. Bailey and Burch discuss framing, which they say “involves presenting the discussion in a format or context with which you feel comfortable.”  A related skill is reframing, and this is often used in psychotherapy.  What reframing is, is describing events or observations, or paraphrasing what has just been said by another person in such a way that it may change the meaning of what has happened or what was said, such that that person is open to thinking and feeling about that event or that thing they said differently.  (Boy – that really bordered on mentalism!)  For example, once when my kids were younger, I was a  parent volunteer in the childcare room at a parent’s event.  One mother dropped off her son and told me, “He’s a handful – please come and get me if you need me,” and then she proceeded to admonish her son that he’d better be on his best behavior while she was gone.…