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ABA Inside Track

Episode 284 - Public Speaking and Effective Dissemination w/ Mandy Ralston

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6623 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Good public speaking is more than cutting “ummmm” from your vocabulary. You need hand movements, good visuals, and panache. But is public speaking style a one-size fits all phenomenon? This week special guest Mandy Ralston adds her voice to that of a panel of expert public speakers to review what works in effective dissemation and what to avoid like the plague. “Reading from your PowerPoint slides”, I’m looking at you!

This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU.

Articles discussed this episode:

Friman, P.C. (2014). Behavior analysts to the front! A 15-step tutorial on public speaking. The Behavior Analyst, 37, 109-118. doi: 10.1007/s40614-014-0009-y

Becirevic, A. (2014). Ask the experts: How can new students defend behavior analysis from misunderstandings? Behavior Analysis in Practice, 7, 138-140. doi: 10.1007/s40617-014-0019-y

Henicke, M.R., Juanico, J.F., Valentino, A.L., & Sellers, T.P. (2022). Improving behavior analysts’ public speaking: Recommendations from expert interviews. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 15, 203-218. doi: 10.1007/s40617-020-00538-4

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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.

0:20.3

I'm your host, Robert Perry

0:21.2

Cruz, and with me as always is a fabulous co-host. Hey, Rob is me, Diana. Diana, where are you?

0:29.9

Where are you right now? You're not here. You're usually here with me. I live in the same house.

0:35.6

I'm here with you in the virtual space, which is really all that matters,

0:38.3

but physically I am in a ball field, which is kind of how it goes for summertime.

0:43.7

And our other fabulous co-host, Jagging McDonald, was here a second ago, but is actually

0:48.1

coming to the studio because her internet crapped out. So she'll be here shortly, but we didn't

0:52.2

want to waste any of our special

0:54.8

guests time. Special guests, you say, what kind of podcast is this? Some sort of where's Waldo of host

1:00.5

podcast? No, it's a behavior analysis podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research

1:06.6

and every week we pick a topic. And sometimes, especially in months like July, which is our special guest month, we have special guests come on. And since we're just talking about stuff, we figured, let's do a topic about public speaking and effective dissemination, a, aka talking about stuff meaningfully. And to do that, we're very, very fortunate to have our special guest joining

1:29.1

us and getting to watch all of our fun recording antics. It's Mandy Rostin. Mandy, thank you so

1:34.1

much for being on the show today. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here.

1:39.2

Is it so much, really? After 10 minutes of preamble, we put you through on that. Well, I mean, that's the appropriate introverbal, right?

1:46.7

Like, I'm not going to have an honest tact about the whole situation.

1:53.1

Have you ever brought that time?

1:54.4

Speaking of dissemination, have you ever brought that up to somebody when we're talking about,

1:58.6

you know, the different operands or like maybe it's an intro course and you bring up the idea of, you know, manned versus introverbal and you use that example of the sort of pleasantry phrase and like watch people's minds, like, oh my God, you're right. Nobody does care how my day is go.

2:11.6

No, I talked about this for years, right? So one of my slides and my frequent presentation that I do is just me, my picture,

2:19.9

and good enough, because when people ask me, how are you? I've been saying good enough for years,

2:24.4

because again, it's a really useful, quick tact, and it doesn't require a motivating operation

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