Episode 336 - Preschool Life Skills Three-view

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Social Sciences, Science, Education

4.7 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

It's been over 200 episodes since we've last talked about Rob's favorite topic/curriculum/body of research, the Preschool Life Skills. So, to wrap up his birthday month of episodes, we're bringing it back!

First, a review of PLS and how it can fit into your classroom environment. Then two recent extensions of the PLS into trauma-based treatment and parent skill development. Hopefully, you'll be as excited as Rob is by the end of this episode. And, if not, could you just fake it for a while? It is his birthday.

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Articles discussed this episode:

Falligant, J.M. & Pence, S.T. (2017). Preschool Life Skills using the Response to Intervention model with preschoolers with developmental disabilities. Behavior Analysis: Research and Practice, 3, 217-236. doi: 10.1037/bar0000056

Rees, R.E., Seel, C.J., Huxtable, B.G., & Austin, J.L. (2024). Using the Preschool Life Skills program to support skill development for children with trauma histories. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 17, 693-708. doi: 10.1007/s40617-023-00892-z

Lee, H., Gunning, C., Leow, J., & Holloway, J. (2024). An evaluation of delivery of the parent Preschool Life Skills program via telehealth. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 57, 893-909. doi: 10.1002/jaba.2914

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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. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me, as always, are my fabulous co-hosts.
0:24.0	Hey, everyone, it's me, Jackie McDonald.
0:27.0	And it's me, Diana Perry Cruz.
0:29.0	Hi.
0:29.7	Oh, boy.
0:30.6	Well, I am so excited because it is the month of February, February being my birthday month at the end of the month, the very last day for three
0:41.2	out of four years, I will be aging a bit. And then because this is, you know, we're coming up on
0:50.2	our 10-year anniversary, I thought, you know what, let's super celebrate our anniversary by the month before we celebrate celebrating meal, just a little bit, just a little bit on the show. But what is the show that we're going to celebrate? Why, it's a podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research, where every week we pick a topic and discuss it at length. And like we were just saying, since it's my birthday month before our 10-year
1:11.8	anniversary, we're going to keep the party going a little bit longer. And it was just all topics or things
1:16.2	that I really felt like talking about. So we had, you know, our special tabletop role playing
1:22.3	and behavior analysis episode with our special guest, Daniel Yang. That was fun. And we had a old book club, which,
1:29.4	you know, what's better than a podcast that we get to do now? It's one we already did and we
1:33.8	get to take a week off. So thanks for everyone. Which not really because we do those as an extra.
1:40.1	So it's not really a week off so much as it's like comp time from it from a year ago. But, you know,
1:45.1	whatever. It's a little extra time to celebrate. And today we are going to be doing our last
1:50.3	episode in February because it's also a super short month so we don't have a ton of episodes already.
1:54.6	And we're going to be talking about one of my very favorite topics, preschool life skills.
1:59.2	Now, wait a minute, Rob, you already talked about preschool life
2:02.1	skills on this show before. You're right, we have. We did for episode, I want to say 34, and
2:07.8	episode 95, we had Dr. Einar Inverson on for that one. And that's it. I think maybe it was a grab
2:14.4	bag at some point, but we have not talked about it in like 200 plus episodes.
2:21.3	So when I found some more recent preschool life skills articles, because I love preschool life
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