Welcome to ABA Inside Track, Episode 5, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.

I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruise, and I'm joined, as always, with my wonderful co-hosts. I'm Diana. And I'm Jackie. We finally got it this time. And I took four episodes. Five episodes. At home, a little bit behind the scenes. When I edit this podcast, I typically have about a three-minute blank space.

I cut that down to be about 10 seconds. This time was all natural. So welcome, everybody.

We are going to talk today about tag teaching. So that's the official name. I guess the one you

would pay for version of Clicker Training. We're going to talk about two

articles today. The first is Quinn, Miltonberger, and Fogel from the Journal of Applied

Behavior Analysis 2015, using Tag Teach to improve the proficiency of dance movements.

Then we're going to talk about a brief report from Persicki, Jackson, and Adams from the Journal

of Autism and Developmental Disorders,

an evaluation of tag teach components to decrease toe walking in a four-year-old child with autism.

So, without further ado, why don't we get started in talking about tag teaching?

Would somebody want to give us kind of a general overview of what that is for folks who haven't used this technique or really only think about it in terms of, say,

animal training? Sure, I can do that. Well, I actually learned about it through animal training

because, as you know, I love dogs. And I have two, one good one, and one bad one.

And so I had to... One of them has little devil horns.

One of those little angelings.

It's very true.

Um, and so I became familiar with Clicker Training when I brought my dog to a class called

Ruffians.

No.

Yeah.

Stop it.

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