HABA Inaugural Conference: October 15-17, 2009 Sheraton Hotel, Indianapolis, IN

Call for Papers

Presenters Include: Mark Sundberg, Ph.D, BCBA-D; Patrick McGreevy, Ph.D., BCBA-D; Julie Vargas, Ph.D. and Ernie Vargas, Ph.D.

Dr. Julie Vargas is currently president of the B. F. Skinner Foundation and a former president of the Association for Behavior Analysis. She has taught third and fourth grade and worked at the high school level. For many years she was a faculty member at West Virginia University, working mainly with practicing and prospective teachers. Dr. Vargas is author of four books including Behavior Analysis for Effective Teaching, published in March of 2009.

Patrick McGreevy, Ph.D.  received B.S. and M.A. degrees in Psychology and Special Education, respectively, from the University of Iowa. He was a special education teacher for eight years, working with children and young adults with moderate-severe developmental disabilities, including autism. He received the Ph.D. degree in Education from Kansas University under the guidance of Ogden R. Lindsley. Dr. McGreevy served as an assistant research professor in the Institute for Community Studies and the Department of Special Education at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and as an assistant professor in the Depart-ment of Special Education at Louisiana State University. He taught courses in applied behavior analysis, as well as, curriculum and instruction for students with moderate-severe disabilities. He is the author of Teaching and Learning in Plain English, an introduction to Precision Teaching, and the founder and first editor of the Journal of Precision Teaching. He is also the author of eight journal articles and a book chapter soon to be published.

   At his clinic in Winter Park, FL, he provides consultations for children and adults with developmental disabilities and hands-on training for their families. He and his associates also provide consultation and training for school districts, residential programs, and hospitals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and several other countries. They specialize in the treatment of children and adults with moderate-severe developmental disabilities, including autism, who exhibit aggressive behavior, self-injurious behavior, and/or limited communi-cation or language skills. Dr. McGreevy and his associates use only scientifically validated procedures from Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), especially from B. F. Skinner’s analysis of Verbal Behavior, Behavior Therapy, and Direct Instruction. Since 2005, he has served as an assistant professor in the Behavior Analysis Program at the Florida Institute of Technology. Dr. McGreevy conducts workshops on the treatment of non-compliance and severe problem behavior and the teaching of communication skills and language using principles and procedures from ABA, especially from B.F. Skinner's analysis of Verbal Behavior.

 Dick Malott, Ph.D.  Since 1966, Dr. Malott
 ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) has been teaching behavior analysis
 at WMU, where he supervises students interested in becoming
 practitioners, rather than researchers. These students work with pre-
 school autistic children and the application of behavior systems
 analysis and OBM to human-services. He graduates 10-15 MA
 students per year and one or two PhD student per year. Every
 summer, he runs the Behavioral Boot Camp, an intense 15-class-hour
 -per-week, 8-week, graduate-level, behavior-analysis seminar for
 students from WMU and around the globe. Originally, he taught an
  intro behavior-analysis course to 1000 students per semester, who trained 1000 lever-pressing rats per year. Now, his students only condition 230 rats per year, but they also do 130 self-management projects and provide 13,500 hours of training for autistic children each year. He just completed the 6^th edition of Principles of Behavior (the textbook previously known as Elementary Principles of Behavior.) Since 1980, he has been working on a textbook called I’ll Stop Procrastinating when I Get around to It, which is now co-authored with Holly Harrison and can be downloaded from DickMalott.com. He has presented in 17 countries and has received two Fulbright Senior Scholar Awards. In 2002, he also received ABA’s Award for Public Service in Behavior Analysis. For more information than you really need, please see http://DickMalott.com. 

Dr. Vincent J. Carbone, Ed.D, BCBA-D,  is a Board Certified
 Behavior Analyst with over 30 years of experience designing
 learning environments for persons with autism and development
 disabilities. He received his graduate training in applied behavior
 analysis (ABA) at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.  He has
 served as an adjunct faculty member at Penn State University,
 Florida Institute of Technology and is currently visiting professor
 in the Behavioral Education doctoral program at Simmons
 College in Boston, MA. His teaching responsibilities include
 courses in Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior.  His behavior analytic research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including The Analysis of Verbal Behavior.   Dr. Carbone currently serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention , The Journal of Speech Language Pathology and Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Analysis in Practice.  He is a frequent invited speaker at professional workshops and conferences. He has provided the preparatory training and clinical consultation to hundreds of Certified Behavior Analysts in several states. He is the developer and presenter of a series of workshops on teaching verbal behavior to children with autism based upon B.F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior.  He is the director of a center-based clinic for children with autism just north of New York City in Rockland County, N.Y.  The clinic provides consultation, training and therapeutic services to children, families and their instructional teams.  He and his clinic staff are currently working with several school districts, agencies and families throughout the United States and are presently providing services to persons in Canada, the Middle Eastern countries and several sites in Europe.  (www.carboneclinic.com)

 Dr.Henry D. (Hank) Schlinger Jr. earned his B.S. and M.A. in
 Psychology from Southern Methodist University in his hometown of
 Dallas, Texas, and, after living in Europe (mostly Germany) for three
 years, enrolled in the Ph.D. program in behavior analysis at Western
 Michigan University (WMU) where he received his Ph.D. (with Jack
 Michael). He then completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship at
 WMU in behavioral pharmacology (with Al Poling). Dr. Schlinger then
 joined the psychology department at Western New England College in
 Springfield, Massachusetts, where he became a tenured, full professor.
 After several years, he left the long, cold New England winters for the
 warm, sunny environs of Los Angeles, in part to pursue his musical interests (see http://www.myspace.com/hankschlinger ). He is now a professor and Director of the Graduate ABA Program in the Psychology Department at California State University, Los Angeles.

In addition to his scholarly work in behavior analysis, Dr. Schlinger has written and spoken on a variety of topics outside behavior analysis, including behavior problems in children, consciousness, intelligence, evolutionary psychology, and theory and methodology in psychology. He is dedicated to promoting and disseminating the science, theory and practice of behavior analysis.

He lives with his wife, an editor and writer, in the quiet, serene hills of Burbank, California. 

 Mark L. Sundberg, Ph.D., BCBA received his doctorate
 degree in Applied Behavior Analysis from Western Michigan
 University (1980), under the direction of Dr. Jack Michael.
 Dr. Sundberg is the author of The Verbal Behavior
 Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (The VB-
 MAPP), and the co-author of the books The Assessment of
 Basic Language and Learning Skills: The ABLLS;
 Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities; and A Collection of Reprints on Verbal Behavior.  He has published over 45 professional papers, including a recent book chapter titled “Verbal Behavior” in Applied Behavior Analysis by Cooper, Heron, & Heward (2007). He is the founder and past editor of the journal The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, a twice past-president of The Northern California Association for Behavior Analysis, a past-chair of the Publication Board of ABAI, and was a member the BACB committee that developed the BCBA and BCABA Task Lists. Dr. Sundberg has given over 500 national and international conference presentations and workshops, and taught 80 college courses on behavior analysis, verbal behavior, sign language, and child development. He is a licensed psychologist in private practice who consults for programs and classrooms that serve children with autism or other developmental disabilities in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Dr. Sundberg awards, include the 2001 “Distinguished Psychology Department Alumnus Award” from Western Michigan University. 

 Carl T. Sundberg, Ph.D., BCBA received his doctorate degree
 in Applied Behavior Analysis  from Western Michigan
 University under the direction of Dr. Jack Michael. Dr.
 Sundberg utilizes B.F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior
 within the framework of applied behavior analysis to teach
 children with language and social deficits. While a graduate
 student, he taught behavior analysis at Western Michigan
 University for 7 years. Dr. Sundberg has publications in The Analysis of Verbal Behavior, and A Collection of Reprints on Verbal Behavior. He has over 25 years experience in the field of mental health working with multiple populations, and for the last 12 years Dr. Sundberg has specialized in early intervention with children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Since 1996 Dr. Sundberg has assessed and worked with over 400 children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders and has personally worked with over 150 families. In addition to private consulting Dr. Sundberg also works with school districts and has been invited to speak at conference presentations and workshops across the nation. Currently Dr. Sundberg is the Clinical Director for the Verbal Behavior Center for Autism (VBCA) in Indianapolis, Indiana. He oversees the implementation of 45 verbal behavior programs and the training of 50 skilled therapists. Dr. Sundberg also teaches Skinner’s Analysis of Verbal Behavior at Ball State University and is the Vice President of the Hoosier Association for Behavior Analysis.

 Jerome D. Ulman, Ph.D., BCBA-D, received his doctoral
 degree in educational psychology from Southern Illinois
 University in 1972.
 Currently he coordinates the Graduate Certificate Program in
 Applied Behavior Analysis at Ball State University where he has
 taught courses in the areas of applied behavior analysis and
 behavior disorders since 1974. His research interests include
 behavioral research methodology, applied behavior analysis in
 special education, sociocultural implications of Skinnerian
 science, and the conceptual analysis of behavior. He serves
 on the editorial  board of Behavior and Social Issue and the
 executive board of the Indiana Association for Behavior Analysis, and is Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Behaviorology.

 D.J. Moran, Ph.D., BCBA is the director of the Family Counseling
 Center and started his ACT training in 1995, co-authored a book
 entitled ACT in Practice: Case Conceptualization in Acceptance
 and Commitment Therapy with Patty Bach on New Harbinger,
 and provides training workshops in Relational Frame Theory and
 ACT case conceptualization.  He currently serves on the ACT
 Training committee, created the Functionally Speaking podcast, and
 is the member-at-large for the Association for Contextual Behavioral
 Sciences.  He has published articles and book chapters on clinical behavior analysis and regularly presents workshops and trainings on ACT and RFT.  

  James T. Todd is Professor of Psychology at Eastern
 Michigan University, having also served as Psychology
 Department Head and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences. He
 earned his Ph.D. in Developmental and Child Psychology in 1990
 at the University of Kansas, and has been at Eastern Michigan
 since then.  His research interests include the history of psychology,
 errors in academic materials, schedule-induced behavior and activity
 anorexia, animal models of human excessive behavior, and pseudoscience in developmental disabilities treatment.  Among his works are two edited two books and several other items on the history of behavior analysis,=2 0the article "Case Histories in the Great Power of Steady Misrepresentation" in the American Psychologist, and a chapter on animal models of exposure therapies the Handbook of Exposure Therapies. He has recently worked as a consultant and expert witness on facilitated communication and other types of autism pseudoscience, assisting with the dismissal of facilitated charges of abuse against Michigan parents and winning a $1,000,000 settlement for a Chicago child treated with facilitated communication instead of effective methods.