Episode 325 - Safety Skills

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Despite Rob disbelieving it, we've gone 300+ episodes without ever devoting an entire hour to research covering safety skills. So, before Dr. Miltenberger busts in to give us feedback about our failing, in situ-style, we get right on it. Aside from looking at specific examples of safety skills training with firearms and earthquakes, we look at the larger swath of training research to figure out what works best, what gets used most, and what components provide that extra-special treatment magic that your program can't succeed without. Stop, drop, and roll!

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Articles discussed this episode:

Baruni, R.R. & Miltenberger, R.G. (2024). A survey of safety skills training used by behavior analysts in practice. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 17, 270-282. doi: 10.1007/s40617-023-00835-8

Miltenberger, R.G., Flessner, C., Gatheridge, B., Johnson, B., Satterlund, M., & Egemo, K. (2004). Evaluation of behavioral skills training to prevent gun play in children. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37, 513-516. doi: 10.1901/jaba.2004.37-513

Kurt, O., Cevher, Z., & Kutlu, M. (2024). Effectiveness of video modeling in teaching earthquake and postearthquake evacuation safety skills for children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 57, 331-340. doi: 10.1002/jaba.1057

Baruni, R.R. & Miltenberger, R.G. (2022). Teaching safety skills to children: A discussion of critical features and practice recommendations. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 15, 938-950. doi: 10.1007/s40617-021-00667-4

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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.
0:19.2	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. Hello, Rob. It's me, Diana Perry Cruz. And it's me, your lovable friend, Jackie not Perry Cruz McDonald. I blew out the speakers. Ballone out again already. I'm so good at blowing it out. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
0:41.1	Turn you down.
0:41.5	Down.
0:43.6	Just a bit.
0:46.6	Oh, well, I'm sorry.
0:48.8	I feel like my energy is like real low because... You want to mean, come over and shake you?
0:50.3	No.
0:50.9	I mean, originally I was supposed to be at the Renaissance Festival today and instead I'm recording an extra podcast that we were going to do another time. But you know what? We are responsible and like, I guess we're not going. So we should continue with our boring schedule. I brought it up to. It's my own fault. It is. I brought it up to though at the exact same time. Oh, did you? Okay. Yeah, but do you know what? Do you know what I found today?
1:13.6	What?
1:14.1	I found a gun.
1:15.9	In your basement? No, you did not. I did. You did not. In your couch cushion. Do you know what I did? What did you do? I left it there. I didn't touch it.
1:23.4	Okay.
1:23.7	That was smart.
1:24.2	And I walked away and I told her responsible adult.
1:27.3	I told Owen.
1:28.1	Apparently it's not us because we didn't even know this was in our couch cushions. Okay. That was smart. And I walked away and I told her responsible adult. I told Owen.
1:28.1	I mean, apparently it's not us because we didn't even know this was in our couch cushions. But. You like my new bit? I don't know. We have a lot of bits. There's too many, too many bits. This is a podcast. You got to let Jackie have a bit. Yeah, that was my bed. You can't be the only person that gets a bit.
1:41.6	Well, no one knows there's a bit coming until I do the bit.
1:43.8	That's not true.
1:44.4	If you listen to the show before, you know there's a bit.
1:47.0	Well, yeah, it gets a bit. Well, no one knows there's a bit coming until I do the bit. That's not true.
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