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The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

ABA Strategies for Safer Playground Behavior: Inside JABA 23

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

4.8648 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the Inside JABA series—this is Episode 23, and it's a must-listen for anyone interested in using Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to improve safety in school settings.

In this episode, Dr. Jeannie Donaldson and Gabriela Gomes join Dr. John Borrero and me to discuss the paper, "Effects of differential reinforcement and time-out on the unsafe
playground behavior of young children
" (note: first author, Elizabeth Linton unfortunately was not able to join us).

🎯 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • Playground Safety Statistics: The surprisingly high rates of injury during recess and why this matters.
  • Behavior-Analytic Interventions: A review of previous ABA research focused on playground safety and injury prevention.
  • Reinforcement vs. Time-Out: Pros, cons, and ethical considerations when using these strategies in natural environments.
  • Study Design and Results: How the researchers implemented the intervention, what the data showed, and how students responded—both behaviorally and emotionally.
  • Participant Choice & Social Validity: Insights into student preferences and recess enjoyment.
  • Implications for Schools: How schools and practitioners can implement similar interventions and where the research should go next.

As you can see below, the intervention package was quite effective:

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Behavioral Observations podcast, stimulating talk for today's behavior

0:14.0

analysts.

0:15.4

Now here's your host, Matt Secoria.

0:20.9

All right, we're back with the 23rd installment of the Inside Java series podcast on behavioral

0:26.7

observations.

0:27.5

I'm joined, of course, by editor-in-chief John Barrero.

0:31.0

Joining us also to discuss a really fantastic paper in the spring issue is Jeannie Donaldson

0:36.7

and Gabby Gomez. This is the paper called

0:40.5

Effects of Differential Reinforcement and Timeout on the Unsafe Playground Behavior of Young

0:45.7

Children. And again, that is in the spring issue of job. I'll put a link to that in the show notes.

0:51.2

I'll get that out of the way right as we start here.

0:54.9

And there are so many aspects about this paper that are both worthy of discussion and just

1:01.6

things that I found really, really interesting. So I am looking forward to getting into this.

1:07.8

Before we do that, though, I'd like the audience to have a little bit of

1:12.5

background on you guys before we get going. So Jeannie and Gabby, if you guys can give us a, you know,

1:17.2

just kind of a brief introduction, who you are, where you work, what sort of things you're interested

1:21.9

in, and then we can get into the paper. Sure. I'm Jeannie Donaldson. I'm a professor at LSU in both the school psychology and behavior analysis programs. And I do a lot of school-based research in mainstream educational settings.

1:37.9

Hi, I'm Gabby Gomez. I am a second-year doc student in Jeannie's Lab in the school psychology program. I got my

1:44.7

master's in behavior analysis from the University of Miami, and I'm originally from Brazil.

1:50.2

So, and I've been really interested in school research ever since I joined Jeannie's Lab.

1:55.5

It was, joining her lab was my first experience with this type of research, and it's been really

1:59.5

fun. Well, i'm a big fan

...

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