Episode 119 - Providing ABA Services in a Global Pandemic w/ Dr. Francesca degli Espinosa
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
While all of us are doing our best to respond to rapid changes during the current COVID-19 pandemic, many families are struggling with the loss of home ABA services. In response to these barriers, many smart clinicians are looking for novel solutions. On this special extra episode, we talk with one of these super smart folks, Dr. Francesca degli Espinosa, about how she and her staff have responded to continued need for home ABA services in Italy in the midst of the health crisis.
In addition to being able to share so many of Dr. Espinosa's amazing (and directly applicable) ideas out to our fellow BCBAs, we're also making this episode good for one FREE learning CEU. Just listen and go to checkout as normal. Then enjoy the content and the CE for free, courtesy of Dr. Espinosa and your friends at ABA Inside Track.
Articles discussed this episode:
Kazdin, A.E. (1982). The token economy: A decade later. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 15, 431-445. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1982.15-431
Hackenberg, T.D. (2018). Token reinforcement: Translational research and application. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 51, 393-435. doi: 10.1002/jaba.439
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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. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always is unfortunately only one of my |
| 0:24.2 | fabulous co-hosts, but it's one of my favorites. |
| 0:27.4 | One of your two favorites. |
| 0:28.5 | It's me, Rob Diana. |
| 0:30.5 | Unfortunately, Jackie was unable to attend this recording. |
| 0:33.3 | This is actually going to be a distance interview with Dr. Francesca Daly Espinoza, who is in the UK right now, but has a history of working with families in Italy and has been working with families in Italy to provide services for children with autism. |
| 0:49.4 | But before we get into the episode, just want to let new listeners or folks who might be tuning in for the first time during our |
| 0:55.2 | our current pandemic know that A.B. Insight Track is a behavior analytic podcast where every week we talk |
| 1:00.6 | about a subject related to behavior analysis and then read some research or review some research. |
| 1:06.9 | Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have an expert in the field, which is what we have this |
| 1:10.7 | week with Dr. Espinoza. |
| 1:12.0 | So we'll be going to that interview in a few minutes. |
| 1:15.1 | So right now, if you're listening to this as it comes out, which is, I believe, Friday, March 27th, I believe. |
| 1:21.5 | Then you will know that we're in the midst of kind of a global pandemic right now, which is affecting everyone in lots |
| 1:27.7 | of different ways, but one of the ways that we are seeing real problems are for families who |
| 1:32.8 | are receiving ABA in-home services. So families of children with autism who have severe |
| 1:37.7 | special needs and who have been receiving up to now ABA, maybe in-home therapy or regular |
| 1:43.2 | consultation from a B.BA, with so many |
| 1:45.9 | places on the planet going into lockdown in which individuals who are not deemed essential |
| 1:51.1 | cannot leave their homes or who even if they are deemed essential might not make the most sense |
| 1:56.1 | health-wise to enter someone else's house. That's really putting a break on a lot of very important services |
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