Book Club 5 - (UNLOCKED) Meaningful Differences Book Club
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 141 minutes
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Summary
UNLOCKED from our Patreon page, it's the Meaningful Differences Book Club! Voted on by our patrons in 2020, we discussed "Meaningful Differences" by Hart and Risley. And here it is: 2+ hours all about this classic, and sometimes controversial, book documenting Betty Hart and Todd Risley's longitudinal study exploring the home lives of 42 families to try to determine why some children develop more robust language than others. If you ever wondered where the 30 million word gap comes from, you've found it.
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Works discussed this episode:
Sperry, D.E., Sperry, L.L., & Miller, P.J. (2019). Reexamining the verbal environments of children from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Child Development, 90, 1303-1318. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13072
Golinkoff, R.M., Hoff, E., Rowe, M.L., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2019). Language matters: Denying the existence of the 30-million word gap has serious consequences, Child Development, 90, 985-992. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13128
Gilkerson, J., Richards, J.A., Warren, S.F., Montgomery, J.K., Greenwood, C.R., Oller, D>K., Hansen, J.H.L., & Paul, T.D. (2017). Mapping the early language environment using all-day recordings and automated analysis. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 26, 248-265. doi: 10.1044/2016_AJSLP-15-0169
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Tracks. First book club patronlusive podcast, the Patreon exclusive ABA podcast where we talk |
| 0:24.4 | about a book related to behavior analysis. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as |
| 0:29.8 | always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey, Rob, it's Dana. And it's me, Jackie. Which, as I say my |
| 0:36.4 | introduction, I'm like, you know what? |
| 0:42.4 | Who would have, like, stumbled upon this episode from our Patreon page to this? |
| 0:45.5 | They probably knew what they were getting into to listen. |
| 0:46.1 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:48.8 | I've paid money for this and now I'm going to listen to it? |
| 0:49.6 | Oh, my heaven. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm just throwing my money away. Some sort of crazy billionaire who's just paying for whatever Patreon strikes their fancy. |
| 0:56.7 | We are here online. We are going to be doing our patented book club. It's not patented, I suppose. |
| 1:02.1 | We're going to be talking all about the book, Meaningful Differences by Heart and Risley. And it's not just the three of us. |
| 1:08.3 | We're actually joined by one of our Inside Tracker patrons. |
| 1:11.7 | We're joined by Alan, Alan, who is one of our Inside Tracker patrons and was able to make some time to chat with us about meaningful differences. |
| 1:19.0 | Alan, say hello to everybody out there. |
| 1:22.7 | My name is Alan Hey,erman. I have my master's in education in a public behavior analysis from Arizona State |
| 1:28.6 | University. I've been a special educator for the last three years, but now I'm working as a behavior |
| 1:34.6 | technician trying to complete my fieldwork to become a BCBA. Awesome. And we are so glad that you are |
| 1:40.2 | trying to make reading a book that you're not being forced to read in school, |
| 1:45.5 | a part of it, and then joining us for the conversation. So we're very, very happy to have you here, |
| 1:48.9 | Alan. And thank you so much for being a patron. We started that, not knowing what that was going |
| 1:52.9 | to be. And just the fact that we've had our, you know, our first get together. And we have |
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