JRC is a special needs school in Canton, Massachusetts serving ages 3-adult. For 41 years JRC has provided very effective education and treatment to both emotionally disturbed students with conduct, behavior, emotional, and/or psychiatric problems and developmentally delayed students with autistic-like behaviors. Read more to hear about Dr. Malott's recent visit!
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Congratulations to Dr. Malott on winning the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award!]]>
Dumbassery in Europe
Here’s a story two friends who went to grad school together told me. I suppose as a “friend of a friend” story it’s suspect but a good story nonetheless. Their friend finished collecting his thesis data and went to their professor to present it. This is what he presented.]]>
Autism Awareness Month phone interview (KPFK in LA). The interviewers were buddy for fifty years, Henry Sluki, Shawn Casey Obrien, and Jolie Mason, who has one of those great NPR announcer/interviewer voices, even as good as Terry Gross's. The interviewee was me.
At the suggestion of Mapy Chavez I visited Alcanzando on facebook where I discovered this link. Check it out, especially the photos section with all their smart sayings, and especially if you're an autism mama, single or not. ]]>
Jerry, “Shoes for industry.” “Is this thing on?” “This is Principal Poop.” And all the other Firesign Theatre lines you WMU Psych undergrads memorized and joked around with during the late ‘60s. Thanks for helping me start the First Fly-by-Night Underground College of Kalamazoo, when you were an undergrad; it continues on as the Behavior Analysis Training System. Thanks for being one of the few grad students who understood, appreciated, and actually used the behavior systems analysis approach I vainly championed in Psy 651 and 652. Thanks for playing such a major role in making Croyden Avenue School a great school for children with disabilities, where so many fledgling behavior analysts acquired the skills that would allow them to go out into the world and help so many others. It continues on as the Woods Edge Learning Center, continuing to serve the Kalamazoo community and continuing to transform fledgling behavior analysts into skilled professionals who move on to help the world community. Thanks for the BCBA that’s causing behavior analysis to be a major force for helping others worldwide. Thanks for the visit to Disney World. Thanks for the mellow times we had. And, yes, my tears flow. But always remember, “Shoes for industry."--Dick]]>