Matt Harrington

Designed for practicing BCBAs, supervisors, clinic leaders, and caregivers who design or implement ABA interventions, this post helps you anticipate and mitigate unwanted effects from reinforcement, extinction, and punishment. It translates ABA data into clear, ethical decisions by outlining proactive planning, replacement skills, and data-driven stop rules to protect safety, dignity, and progress. You’ll learn practical steps to monitor outcomes, communicate with families, and adjust plans quickly when side effects arise.

Designed for BCBAs, clinic directors, senior supervisors, and caregivers, this post helps you decide when to use simple versus conditional discriminations and how to evaluate their effectiveness. It guides assessment, stimulus selection, prompting and fading, and data-based mastery criteria, with a focus on unprompted accuracy and generalization. Ethical practice is front and center—consent, least-restrictive approaches, and learner dignity are embedded throughout. Use this to turn ABA data into clear, actionable, and ethically sound decisions about discrimination procedures.

Designed for practicing BCBAs, clinicians, and classroom staff using ABA. This post guides you in choosing measurement procedures that match the critical dimension of behavior and the setting, so data lead to clear, ethical decisions about when to adjust, continue, or stop treatment. It covers continuous vs. discontinuous methods, permanent product, representativeness, and reliability, all with an ethics-first approach.

This post is for behavior analysts, clinicians, and supervisors who need to know whether a specific intervention causes change for a single learner. It explains the defining features of single-case experimental designs (SCEDs) and how they establish experimental control beyond a graph that merely looks like improvement. It offers practical guidance on using repeated measurements, baseline stability, phase changes, and replication to turn ABA data into clear, ethical decisions for client welfare.

This post is for ABA professionals—BCBAs, RBTs, and supervisors—who want to ensure their judgments aren’t clouded by personal bias. It defines bias, shows where it can slip into intake, assessment, intervention, and documentation, and offers practical steps to catch and correct it. Practical tools include blind data checks, multiple informants, neutral language, structured decision rules, and reflective practice to turn ABA data into clear, ethical clinical decisions.

This post is for BCBAs, clinic directors, senior supervisors, and caregivers who want to move beyond simple frequency counts. It explains how duration, latency, and interresponse time reveal how long, how quickly, and how spaced a behavior is, guiding you toward precise, ethical intervention decisions. It emphasizes clear onset/offset definitions, robust interobserver agreement, and privacy considerations so data support responsible clinical decisions.

Designed for BCBA supervisors, clinic directors, and senior clinicians overseeing RBTs, BCaBAs, and BCBA candidates, this post explains how behavior-analytic supervision uses measurement, direct observation, and behavioral skills training to develop competent, ethical practitioners. It covers fidelity monitoring, data-driven decision making, and competency-based progression to ensure interventions are delivered as designed. By centering observable goals and real-time data, it helps you turn supervision data into clear, ethical decisions that protect clients and advance practice.

This guide is written for BCBAs, clinic directors, and senior RBTs in classrooms or clinics where one-on-one observation isn’t realistic. Learn how to design and apply discontinuous measurement procedures (interval recording, time sampling), choose appropriate interval lengths, and report results ethically so data guide decisions. The emphasis is on turning ABA data into clear, defensible choices while documenting methods, acknowledging limitations, and maintaining interobserver agreement.

This post is for behavior analysts, educators, clinicians, and caregivers who design instructions and classroom rules in ABA. It explains how to turn ABA data into clear, ethical decisions—when to use instructions versus rules, how to specify observable behaviors, and how to measure fidelity and outcomes. With practical examples and ethical considerations, it helps reduce confusion, improve safety, and promote learner independence across clinic, classroom, or home settings.

This guide helps BCBAs, supervisees, and clinic teams determine when ABA services or supervision should be discontinued and how to transition ethically. It emphasizes using objective data to justify termination and to plan a thorough, non-abandoning transition with written plans, consent, referrals, and follow-up. The focus is on translating ABA data into clear, ethical decisions that protect clients’ gains and ensure continuity of care.