Scholarly publications

Includes peer reviewed journals within and adjacent to behavior analysis

(Starred journals available to BCBAs through the BACB portal)

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis *
3/30 Shaw, S. K. G., Posey, J. L., Zane, T., Putnam, R. F., Shillingsburg, A., & Weiss, M. J. (2026). Comparing interteaching and discussion forums in an asynchronous online classroom: A replication. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 59(2), e70060. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaba.70060
Interteaching was superior to discussion forums for quiz scores, but not projects. Students preferred interteaching. The supplemental info has a helpful FOI checklist

Behavior Analysis in Practice
3/30 Lloveras, L.A., Vollmer, T.R. Suggestions for Repeated Measurement of Sleep and Behavior for Children with Autism Receiving Behavior Analysis Service. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01176-y
In one interesting finding from this study, comparing parent estimate of child sleep with commercial devices found that parents may overestimate their child's sleep 

McCary, L.M., Hoehne, K.G. A Programmatic Evaluation of Interdisciplinary Collaboration at a Center-Based Organization. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01175-z
(Open access) The authors detail how they constructed a collaborative center

4/1 Fienup, D.M., Blank, E., Jacobson, M. et al. A Systematic Review of and Recommendations for Behavior Analytic Decision-Making Models for Practitioners Working with Children. Behav Analysis Practice (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-026-01170-4
The authors review 38 decision-making models from the literature

Behavioral Interventions *
3/29 Frazier, Thomas W., Nissa V.Etten, Richard M.Kubina, Jr., AllisonFrazier, MichaelMueller, and MirkoUljarevic. 2026. “Comprehensive Psychometric Evaluation of the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills-Revised and the Assessment of Functional Living Skills,” Behavioral Interventions: e70092. https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.70092
(Open access) The ABLLS-R and AFLS are psychometrically sound -- for example, a sound test will get you similar results if you test the same person on two consecutive days, etc.

Behavior and Social Issues
4/1 Solares, L., Croghan, L.E., Tamrazi, S. et al. Demographic Characteristics of Interventionists: Rarely Reported, Arguably Important. Behav. Soc. Iss. (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42822-026-00246-8
In 661 articles published from 2019-2024 in 3 behavior analytic journals, the categories "age, educational level, gender or sex, language, race or ethnicity, socioeconomic status" of interventionists were reported no more then 25% of the time. But these qualities do matter sometimes

Journal of Behavioral Education
4/2 Lee, S., Lee, Y. Effectiveness of a parent-implemented intervention for improving balance in a child with autism spectrum disorder. J Behav Educ (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10864-026-09627-w
The authors trained a parent to implement an intervention aimed at improving motor skills in their child, "including sitting, half-kneeling, standing, and walking" plus ball skills. The parent implemented the intervention effectively

Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
3/29 Differential Effects of Perceived Discrimination and Affirmation in LGBQ People: Heterosexism During Childhood and Interoceptive Awareness as Individual Contexts
(In press) (Open access) In a sample of 141 LGBQ people in Hong Kong, early exposure to "heterosexist" beliefs had deleterious effects on health, and affirmations had small positive effects

Book publications

Textbooks, handbooks, manuals, or mass-market

Upcoming:
Personal Narratives on the Behavior Analysis of Human Language and Cognition: Stories from Around the World, Harte et al. (Eds.) (Jul 2026)
WAVE Prosocial Assessment and Curriculum, Rehfeldt & Dixon (Pre-order)
Digital Technologies in Behavior Science: Theoretical and Practical Applications, Crone-Todd, Hantula, Layng (Eds.) (Pre-order Feb 25, 2026)
AIM Navigators, Dixon (Pre-order)
Promoting Language for Learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Verbal Behavior Guide for Practitioners, Vladescu & Kissamore (Eds.)
Navigating Ethics in Behavior Analysis: Dealing with Gray Areas, Carr

Recent:
2025
2024
2023

Podcasts

ABA Inside Track
April Preview 2026

Episodes will include:

• Golden Grab Bag (Spring Grab Bag 2026)

• Relapse

• Assent and PECS w/ Armando Bernal

Behavioral Observations
Conditioning Books as Reinforcers: How to Increase Reading Engagement in Young Children: Inside JABA 26

All Things Behavior
Toward Collapsing the Is-Ought Distinction: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Data-Informed Ethics in Behavior Analysis with David Cox and Matt Brodhead

Functional Relations
#41 - Student Episode: 7 Dimensions of ABA

Blogs

Generally these are produced by professionals

ABAI
Dismantling Ableism in Applied Behavior Analysis: A Call for Reflective Practice
A guest post referencing two recent articles by the same author

Climate Change Books include Behavior Change – A (Somewhat) Hopeful and Inspiring Sampler
Susan Schneider highlights books on climate action

When the Archives Sang: A Startling Discovery in the Harvard Audio Collections
Unfortunately we were beaten to the scoop that Skinner recorded a folk duet with Chomsky

Community Engaged Scholarship in Verbal Behavior: Lessons Learned from Bridging Research, Practice, and Community Impact
A guest post from Texas Tech faculty and students about "community engaged scholarship" and goddamn they are playing with fire, apparently. We recommend finding a university that deserves you

OAR
Why Those with Autism Make Great Poets
A poor idea
Completely impoverished
RFK withdraw

Licensing & professional organizations

Business world

Autism services, behavioral health, etc.

Federal agencies to revise mental health parity rule
As with everything in the current administration, this is either 1) a scary, looming mess of a change, or 2) something that won’t end up happening, mostly due to incompetence. Therefore, it’s hard to assess whether this is a seriously underreported story – if this happens, it could have enormous effects on any industry that relies on MHP. Then again, the state of Georgia has fined providers $25 million under MHP but collected $0.

And an update on the Indiana provider with the highest Medicaid reimbursement: they’re going under after being banned from billing the state.

Accidentally behavior analysis

A mainstream news article that relates to behavior analysis

Did New York blow $10 million on reading instruction that doesn’t work?, The Hechinger Report
Teachers were exposed to mistakes in a $10 million training that mostly consisted of some dudes reading from slides, including:

One [slide] notes that high-frequency words “can easily be decoded,” a statement that isn’t true, he said: Many of the highest-frequency words derive from the Anglo-Saxon spelling tradition and are irregular. “I think that would be a slide I’d say, ‘Get rid of that or rewrite it dramatically,’ ” [Tim Shanahan] said.

We want to propose something right now to Her Honor, Governor Kathy Hochul: we will personally concoct a slide deck on phonics instruction for half price with half the errors. We can have this done by Tuesday, Kathy!

Continuing education

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Flashback

Ski-ner

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In the October 1972 issue of Ski magazine – October surely being a prime month for Ski magazine – they have a brief uncredited passage suggesting that ski coaches take an operant conditioning approach. It’s clearly half-serious, but the principles of behaviorism have been used in coaching. Garry Martin made a career out of it.