Detecting Your Personal Biases: Session 217 with Lina Slim
The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria
Matt Cicoria
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Lina Slim joins me in Session 217 for a wide-ranging conversation that is almost impossible to describe in a list of bullet points.
But I will try... In this show we discussed:
- Her pivot from studying animal behavior and language to teaching children with Autism.
- Her unease with seeing lackluster applications of ABA.
- Starting her own school while earning her Ph.D., while raising two children.
- Providing services all over the world.
- Detecting your own biases when providing services (please check this part out if you listen to nothing else in this podcast!!!).
- Developing trust through asking questions.
- What it's like to practice ABA in three different languages.
- What she plans on talking about at this year's Verbal Behavior Conference (and please consider attending, it's a great time!).
- Great advice for the newly-minted BCBA.
I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, thanks for joining me today in session 217 of behavioral observations. |
| 0:04.8 | In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Lena Slim, and we had a wide-ranging conversation |
| 0:10.5 | that's almost impossible to describe in a short list of bullet points. |
| 0:16.5 | But I will try. |
| 0:17.9 | In this show, we discussed how she pivoted from studying animal behavior and language to working with children with autism. |
| 0:26.0 | Her unease with seeing lackluster applications of applied behavior analysis when she first started her career and what she did as an alternative. |
| 0:33.9 | And that includes starting her own school while at the same time earning her PhD while at the same time raising two children. |
| 0:41.5 | We talked about how she provides services quite literally all over the world and what it's like working in different cultures. |
| 0:48.3 | We spent a lot of time talking about cultural sensitivity and humility, and I think the most important part of the podcast for me was the |
| 0:58.0 | advice you gave about detecting your own biases when providing services and what to do when |
| 1:03.6 | you encounter them. It's really, really poignant stuff. And I encourage you to listen to that piece if you get nothing else from this |
| 1:12.0 | podcast. We also talked about how to develop trust with stakeholders through asking questions. |
| 1:18.6 | What it's like to practice ABA in three different languages. We spend a lot of time talking about |
| 1:23.8 | this year's verbal behavior conference, and as an aside, please consider attending |
| 1:28.1 | if you're able to do so. She's giving a great presentation about collaboration and a whole host |
| 1:33.3 | of other things. And she just had some fantastic advice for the newly minted BCBA, and frankly, |
| 1:38.8 | BCBAs of all experience levels. So I, again, really encourage you to listen to this conversation all the way through. |
| 1:45.7 | There are just a lot of really great points. You can learn more about Lena and the verbal behavior |
| 1:52.0 | conference and the show notes for this episode over at behavioral observations.com. |
| 1:57.9 | I also want to let you know before we get to the interview itself that we are brought to you by Rose Griffin's free masterclass, The Power of Joint Attention. |
| 2:06.3 | This is a 30-minute course that will show you how to use books and therapy, so your students are running over to listen to you read. |
| 2:12.2 | The course also covers how to use songs in therapy so that your students are eager to participate in play and are ready and engage |
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