Episode 183 - Preference Assessments 2.0 w/ Dr. Christopher Tullis

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

This week our special guest, Dr. Christopher Tullis, joins us to discuss his thorough literature review of preference assessment research. In addition, we take a side-trip to reflect on indices of happiness and review why "happy" isn't such a bad word. Plus, Rob shares his beef with the MSW; only one of them comes out of this episode alive!

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Articles discussed this episode:

Tullis, C.A., Cannella-Malone, H.I., Basbigill, A.R., Yeager, A., Fleming, C.V., Payne, D., & Wu, P. (2011). Review of the choice and preference assessment literature for individuals with severe to profound disabilities. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 46, 576-595. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24232368

Richman, D.M., Barnard-Brak, L., Abby, L., & Grubb, L. (2016). Multiple-stimulus without replacement preference assessment: Reducing the number of sessions to identify preferred stimuli. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 28, 469-477. doi: 10.1007/s10882-016-9485-1

Dillon, C.M. & Carr, J.E. (2007). Assessing indices of happiness and unhappiness in individuals with developmental disabilities: A review. Behavioral Interventions, 22, 229-244. doi: 10.1002/bin.240

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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.
0:19.2	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz. And with me as always are my fabulous co-host safer. I'm your host Robert Perry Cruz. With me as
0:21.4	always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hey Rob, it's Dana. And it's me, Jackie. Jackie, look sad.
0:27.6	My ear. I'm so loud. I had to take it out. I'm so sorry for being loud on this audio show
0:33.3	about behavior analysis, behavior analytic research. Can I tell you that my preference would be that I would sit farther away from people that are speaking because of my muddy ear?
0:44.8	Oh.
0:46.0	Well.
0:46.8	But that's just my preference.
0:48.9	I see.
0:49.5	And we could use that preference to determine things that you like and don't like perhaps.
0:54.3	Yeah.
0:54.7	Boy, if only there were somebody who had done research on this area, maybe, like, read a whole bunch of articles on, like,
1:00.5	preference assessment updates and had some really great insight into how we as practitioners
1:05.0	can improve their use of preference assessments.
1:06.8	Oh, wait.
1:07.3	Oh, wait.
1:08.0	Who's this?
1:08.8	We do.
1:09.3	We do have such a person. We have Dr. Christopher Tallis on the line with us to talk all about reference assessments or preference assessments 2.0, I think we're calling this one because we've talked a little bit about them before. Chris, thank you so much for coming on the show today.
1:24.1	Yeah, thank you guys. I'm excited to chat a bit about a line of research, I guess,
1:28.1	that we've had going off and on for the past a long time now, almost a back to me personally.
1:35.5	You know, when you, when you did that intro, it reminded me that we were all like in Mr.
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