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dimensions of applied behavior analysis". This groundbreaking article named seven definitive dimensions to the approach of behavior analysis. The seven dimensions state that "work in the field should be applied, behavioral, analytic, technological, conceptually systematic, effective and capable of generalized effects." (pp. 406). Twenty years later, Baer et al. published an updated version, "Some still current dimensions of applied behavior analysis" (pp. 406). The seven dimensions had not changed, only elaborated on, throughout the years.
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paper, Baer addressed the single mindedness of the authors of single-subject research design books. He stated that these researchers only investigated the effectiveness of treatments in alteration and never examined whether the treatments interact. Baer proposed that single subject designs can and should be used to study not only separate effects but also interactions between the two conditions.
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with the children, they can easily lose this ability. Baer and colleagues urged school systems to establish maintenance programs to help developmentally delayed children to continue and improve on their question-asking strategy. By maintaining this ability with the children, they will not only improve question-asking but save the school system valuable time and money from remedial training.
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Normal children develop simple question-asking (e.g. "What's that") in early infancy (pp. 15). Severely retarded children usually have great difficulty developing this skill. Initial training for this strategy is costly and time consuming for school systems. Despite the vast amount of time spent
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Developing new techniques and approaches for teaching developmentally delayed children was Baer's passion (Anonymous, 2002). He wrote many articles analyzing the current public education system and ways to improve their methods (Anonymous, 2002). The following comes from Warren et al. (1981), unless
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The following comes from Hains (1989), unless otherwise stated. Baer published hundreds of articles and books. He coauthored a paper with an associate, Ann H. Hains, in 1989 on experimental design entitled "Interaction effects in multi-element designs: Inevitable, desirable, and ignorable". In this
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The following comes from Colman (1994), unless otherwise stated. Shortly after the establishment of ABA program, the first journal, Journal of
Applied Behavior Analysis, dedicated to the discipline was published in 1968. In the first issue, Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968) published "Some current
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perspectives and the rejection of research using single-subject designs." (Horowitz, 2002., pp. 313). Seeking a university environment more welcoming of behavior analysis, Don Baer found his way to the newly formed Human
Development and Family Life Department at the University of Kansas.
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contingencies on children (Anonymous, 2002). An influential paper titled "Effect of withdrawal of positive reinforcement on an extinguishing response in young children" was written during this time (Baer, 1961). This research article established the effectiveness of "withdrawal of positive
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