27: Adel Najdowski talks Executive Functioning

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

Science, Mental Health, Skinner, Behaviorism, Behaviorconsultant, Aba, Behavioralpsychology, Health & Fitness, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy, Fba, Social Sciences, Verbalbehavior, Bcba, Functionalassessment, Discretetrial

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🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In Session 27 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast, I chat with Dr. Adel Najdowski, BCBA-D about teaching Executive Functioning skills to individuals with Autism and Attention difficulties. Adel is the author of a new book on this subject, Flexible and Focused, and we discuss the idea of Behavior Analysts delving into the realm of more mainstream psychological and educational constructs, and more pragmatically, how to conceptualize things like EF into more manageable and teachable responses. The book is available on Amazon, and it will also be at the ABAI 2017 Bookstore, which is where I’ll probably pick my copy up. This episode is sponsored by Britton Behavioral Consulting. Dr. Lisa Britton specializes in providing high quality independent fieldwork supervision to aspiring BCBA’s. For more information on her services, please check out her website here.

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0:00.0	This is the Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Secoria, session number 27.
0:11.7	Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior analysts.
0:19.2	Now here's your host, Matt Sequoria.
0:24.6	Hey, everyone.
0:25.4	Welcome to the pre-A-B-A-I-2017 version of the Behavioral Observations podcast.
0:30.3	I'm your host, Matt Secoria, and we are trying to get ready to go for Denver.
0:35.5	But one of the things that's on my long list of things to do before I get out of town here
0:40.7	is to send out one more podcast episode.
0:44.5	So you guys have something to listen to on the plane and stuff like that.
0:47.4	So here we go.
0:48.9	In today's episode, I'm really thrilled to bring on a guest who's done something quite extraordinary in that
0:55.8	thing is to take a topic that's, you know, kind of a buzzword, especially in the educational
1:01.7	field, and really operationalize it and create a curriculum about how to teach it.
1:06.9	You know, usually when I encounter some of these kind of terms, Dejure, I have one or two reactions.
1:14.0	In my weaker moments, I might poke some fun at these terms, but sometimes I like to play a game
1:19.1	with myself and try to operationalize them, try to think about how we can construe these concepts
1:26.3	from a behavioral perspective.
1:28.4	And luckily, today's guest did just that with this concept of executive functioning.
1:33.6	And our guest today is Dr. Adele Nadowski from Pepperdine University, and she has written a whole book on the subject.
1:40.4	And it's basically a curriculum about how to teach executive functioning skills
1:44.9	to individuals with autism and or attentional difficulties. So that's pretty much what we
1:52.0	talk about today and we talk about some of the other things that she's been involved in in her
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