(REBROADCAST) Episode 160 - Incorporating Unique Interests w/ Tameika Meadows

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

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

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

We were greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Tameika Meadows, a great BCBA, author of the I Love ABA blog, and advocate for the power of behavior analysis. Tameika was also one of our earliest supporters and it was a real treat when we finally had her join as our guest. In honor of her contributions to the field, we’re rebroadcasting that episode and donating all CE fees raised for it from now until June 2023 to Black Applied Behavior Analysts (BABA). Tameika was scheduled to talk at the BABA conference as one of their invited speakers. While a donation is a poor substitute to her presence, we know what is raised will go to promoting behavior analysts in the Black community as a part of the legacy she leaves behind.

Though many of us have probably spent much of our careers fretting over how we can help autistic children stop engaging in stereotypic or seemingly ritualistic behavior, have we spent enough time asking whether attending to these unique interests might actually be beneficial? This week we’re joined by Tameika Meadows from I Love ABA to flip the script on that old chestnut and see what research tells us about all of the benefits to appreciating a person’s preferences, no matter how different they may be.

This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. All funds for this episode from December 2022-June 2023 will be donated to BABA. Click here to go to the store page.

Articles discussed this episode:

Baker, M.J. (2000). Incorporating the thematic ritualistic behaviors of children with autism into games: Increasing social play interactions with siblings. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2, 66-84. doi: 10.1177/109830070000200201

Vismara, L.A. & Lyons, G.L. (2007). Using perseverative interests to elicit joint attention behaviors in young children with autism: Theoretical and clinical implications for understanding motivation. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 9, 214-228. doi: 10.1177/10983007070090040401

Boyd, B.A., Conroy, M.A., Mancil, G.R., Nakao, T., & Alter, P.J. (2007). Effects of circumscribed interests on the social behaviors of children with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 37, 1550-1561. doi: 10.1007/s10803-006-0286-8

Davey, L. (2020). Using the special interests of autistic children to facilitate meaningful engagement and learning. Good Autism Practice, 21, 43-64.

Bannerman, D.J., Sheldon, J.B., Sherman, J.A., & Harchik, A.E. (1990). Balancing the right to habilitiation with the right to personal liberties: The rights of people with developmental disabilities to eat too many doughnuts and take a nap. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 23, 79-89. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1990.23-79

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone.
0:01.0	We were greatly saddened to learn of the passing of Tamika Meadows, a great BCBA, author of the I Love ABA blog and advocate for the power of behavior analysis.
0:10.4	Tamika was also one of our earliest supporters, and it was a real treat when we finally had her join as our guest.
0:17.1	In honor of her contributions to the field, we're rebroadcasting that episode and donating all CE fees raised for it from now until June 2023 to Black Applied Behavior Analysts.
0:27.6	Tamika was scheduled to talk at the Baba Conference as one of their invited speakers.
0:31.6	While the donation is a poor substitute for her presence, we know what is raised will go to promoting behavior analysts in the
0:37.8	black community as a part of the legacy she leaves behind. Thank you. Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast that's like reading in your car, but safer.
1:03.0	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts.
1:07.1	Hey, Rob and Sanna.
1:08.9	And it's me, Jackie.
1:10.8	Oh, boy, you guys. I don't know about you, but, you know,
1:12.9	we've been doing this podcast about behavior analysis and behavior analytic research for for over five
1:17.7	years now. And while I have been doing it, you have been? Yeah. We have. That's why I said,
1:21.5	we have been. You said, I don't know about you. Oh, okay. I do know about you. I know you've been here the whole time. I think a lot of people probably assume that our favorite interest is podcast or talk about behavior analysis. Well,
1:31.4	those are great interests. I don't know if they would be our most preferred interests or our
1:36.7	uniqueness of all interests. And speaking of unique interests, we probably could do a whole
1:43.5	episode about unique interests in how we use unique interests, we probably could do a whole episode about unique interests in how we use
1:47.1	unique interests in our practice. And to do so, we are very fortunate to have a special guest
1:54.8	who is joining us to talk about this topic. Why don't we not waste any time and introduce
2:00.6	that special guest over five years?
2:02.7	I think she's one of the first people to email us to say thank you for making the show and good job
2:06.9	on the show. So we're very excited to get her on herself. And that's Tamika Meadows from the I Love
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