April Preview 2026
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
April showers are fun, especially after winter snowstorms. Fortunately, we've thawed out a whole mess of episodes for you to enjoy this month including our latest grab bag. But what about the themed episodes? Glad you asked! First, we'll be talking all about relapse which includes discussions of resurgence and renewal (see, aren't you glad you're learning about this?). Then we're joined by Armando Bernal to discuss how PECS could be a key component of building up our support of assent practices. Finally we get real and talk about peer mediation. The kind where children support skill acquisition of their with cues and praise. Not the other one. That'll get its own episode someday. All that and a new LISTENER POLL!
Articles for April 2026
Golden Grab Bag (Spring Grab Bag 2026)
Loomis, K. Morales, L., Yeo, Y., & Fienup, D.M. (2026). Turning the page: Increasing young children's preference for looking at and engaging with books. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 59. doi: 10.1002/jaba.70051
Bigwood, L., Staples, E., & Sharp, R. (2026). Making preference assessments more acceptable and effective for people with dementia. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi: 10.1007/s40617-025-01145-x
Kaplan, B. A., Gelino, B. W., & Reed, D. D. (2018). A behavioral economic approach to green consumerism: Demand for reusable shopping bags. Behavior and Social Issues, 27, 20-30. doi: 10.5210/bsi.v.27i0.8003
Relapse
Shahan, T.A. (2020). Relapse: An introduction. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 113, 8-14. doi: 10.1002/jeab.578
Podlesnik, C.A., Ritchey, C.M., Muething, C., & Falligant, J.M. (2025). Different criteria affect prevalence of relapse of behavior targeted for treatment. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58, 225-231. doi: 10.1002/jaba.2927
Assent and PECS w/ Armando Bernal
Allen, L.L., Mellons, L.S., Syed, N., Johnson, J.F., & Bernal, A.J. (2024). Neurodiversity-affirming applied behavior analysis. Behavior Analysis in Practice. doi: 10.1007/s40617-024-00918-0
Doherty, A., Bracken, M., & Gormley, L. (2018). Teaching children with autism to initiate and respond to peer mands using picture exchange communication system (PECS). Behavior Analysis in Practice, 11, 279-288. doi: 10.1007/s40617-018-00311-8
Peer Mediation
Morrison, L., Kamps, D., Garcia, J., & Parker, D. (2001). Peer mediation and monitoring strategies to improve initiations and social skills for students with autism. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 3, 237-250. doi: 10.1177/10983007010030040
Beaulieu, L., Hanley, J.P., & Roberson, A.A. (2013). Effects of peer mediation on preschoolers' compliance and compliance precursors. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 46, 555-567. doi: 10.1002/jaba.66
Grauvogel-MacAleese, A.N. & Wallace, M.D. (2010). Use of peer-mediated intervention in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 43, 547-551. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2010.43-547
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz. With me, as always, are my fabulous co-hosts. Oh, hey there, Robert Perry Cruz. This is Jacqueline McDonald coming to you live from your own house. Wow. And it's me, Diana Perry Cruz. I'm also in this house. Wow. And she lives here. You do live here. Well, welcome. This is our podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research. |
| 0:40.6 | This is our little old podcast, y'all. I don't know. That's what it sounded like. I'm trying that out. No? Not going to do that? All right. In any case, it is a podcast. It is about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research. And every week we do pick a topic and discuss it at length unless it's a preview, which is what this is. |
| 0:56.9 | This is our April 2017. analytic research. And every week we do pick a topic and discuss it at length, unless it's a |
| 0:55.4 | preview, which is what this is. This is our April 26th preview. Whether it's coming out at the |
| 1:00.3 | end of the month for our Patreon subscribers or the beginning of the month for everyone else in the |
| 1:04.7 | world, we're going to be discussing what's coming up on ABA Inside Track, as well as a couple |
| 1:09.5 | other fun tidbits and bon moz, if you will. |
| 1:14.2 | I won't. |
| 1:15.0 | No? |
| 1:15.4 | Okay. |
| 1:15.9 | Diana won't be doing that. |
| 1:16.9 | But she will be telling us all the fun episodes that we have coming out this April, 26. |
| 1:23.4 | April is special this year because it is a five Wednesday month, which only happens a couple |
| 1:29.3 | times a year. |
| 1:30.4 | Especially you mean hard. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, and that means that we will be releasing four full-length episodes in the month of April. |
| 1:38.0 | So we're going to start things off with a grab bag episode. |
| 1:41.4 | And, you know, at the time of the grab bag, we don't really know what we're going to be |
| 1:45.1 | talking about. We're going to keep that ruse up. But now that it's already been recorded, I can tell |
| 1:49.0 | you what we did discuss. So there were three articles that we reviewed in our spring 2026 grab bag, |
| 1:55.0 | and they were turning the page, increasing young children's preference for looking at and engaging with books by luma's morales yo and fine up and that was in java |
| 2:06.9 | 2025 also a behavioral economic approach to green consumerism demand for reusable shopping bags by kaplan gal, and Reed, and that was in behavior and social |
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