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The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Leveraging Technology and Philanthropy to Teach Impoverished Children to Read: Session 159 with Michael Maloney

The Behavioral Observations Podcast with Matt Cicoria

Matt Cicoria

Science, Mental Health, Skinner, Behaviorism, Behaviorconsultant, Aba, Behavioralpsychology, Health & Fitness, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy, Fba, Social Sciences, Verbalbehavior, Bcba, Functionalassessment, Discretetrial

4.8648 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In Session 159 of The Behavioral Observations Podcast, Michael Maloney returns to the show. We spend a few minutes catching up since the last time we spoke (see Session 129), but then pivot to his recent collaboration with the Canadian charity organization, the Amorak Society. With help from the Rotary International's literacy initiative, these partners deployed Michael's reading program, The Maloney Method, to over 2500 children in some of the poorest areas of Bangladesh via a smartphone-based app. 

I won't spoil the all the good parts here in the episode description, but let me just say that this is an amazing story of dissemination that I hope you enjoy as much as I did. 

For those interested in learning more about Michael and/or the reading software, check out his website, MaloneyMethod.com. Michael will also be conducting a series of webinars with Behavior Development Solutions throughout the month of June, so please check those out if you'd like to learn directly from him. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome to session 159 of the behavioral observations podcast.

0:06.0

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:08.8

In today's episode, Michael Maloney returns to the show, and we spend the first couple of

0:14.6

minutes catching up since the last time we spoke way back in session 129.

0:19.8

But then we pivot to the main, I guess, crux or topic of this episode.

0:25.5

And that's his recent collaboration with the Canadian charity organization, the Amarok Society.

0:31.0

Now, together with the Amarok Society and with help from the Rotary International Literacy Initiative, these partners deployed Michael's

0:39.2

reading program, the Maloney Method, to over 2,500 children in some of the poorest areas of

0:45.2

Bangladesh, using neighborhood moms as instructors and delivering the instruction through

0:52.0

smartphone-based technologies. It's really just an amazing story.

0:57.5

I'm going to keep this introduction pretty brief here so we can get right to it because I'm not

1:01.6

going to do it justice here in my opening comments. I just, again, would implore you to check out

1:06.6

the entire conversation because it's, again, just a fascinating story of the potential for good

1:12.1

that behavior analysis can do, especially when we reach out and work with other partners.

1:16.9

So for those interested in learning more about Michael or his reading program or the software

1:23.2

itself, you can go to the Maloney Method.com.

1:26.8

And if you want to learn more from Michael directly, he's doing a series of webinars with

1:31.2

our other friends Behavior Development Solutions all throughout the month of June.

1:36.5

So you can go to behaviordevelopment solutions.com and just put in Michael Maloney in the search

1:41.8

bar.

1:42.5

I'll have a link to it in the show notes, along with

1:44.5

all the other things that we discussed in this podcast episode. Before we get to the conversation

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