ANNOUNCE: Photos PSU Chart Share Spring '09

On the SCListserv, Rick Kubina shared that he's posted a slideshow of the chart share that his students do at Penn State,

"[At] PSU we have two chart shares a semester. I took pictures of our last one and posted the results here: [at the PT Party site]"

Check it out at the PT Party Photo Albums
PSU Chart Share SP 09

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ANNOUNCE: Apps. due 6/5/09--OAR Graduate Research Grant Program

Organization for Autism Research (OAR)

GRADUATE RESEARCH GRANT PROGRAM
Proposals due June 5, 2009

OAR invites research proposals for its 6th Annual Graduate Research Grant Program. Through this competition, OAR intends to promote research in:

• The analysis, evaluation, or comparison of assessment models, treatment models, or service systems
• Applied aspects of early intervention and/or school-based education, behavioral, or communication intervention,
• Adult issues such as continuing education, employment, housing models and “later intervention,” or
• Issues related to family support, social and community integration, and assessment and intervention with challenging behavior.

OAR seeks to fund studies that will likely produce practical and clearly objective results that may aid parents, families, professionals, and people with autism to make more fully informed choices that will lead to healthier and happier lives.

Please note that OAR will only make grant awards for research that will begin during the grant period (September 1, 2009-December 31, 2010).

Link to Background, Announcement, Review Criteria, Proposal, Required enclosures, Competition, Administrative, etc.

Full information on GRADUATE STUDENT GRANTS

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ANNOUNCE: New book by Abigail B. Calkin

This is a shameless plug for a newly authored book by Abigail B. Calkin, Ph.D., Performance Enhancement Training: Change your thoughts, feelings, and urges. This is the first of a projected series of books to "change your thoughts, feelings, and urges", and this title in particular focusses on "...military personnel and others with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), this book focuses on increasing positive thoughts and feelings within a person...".

This latest book is available from Behavior Research Company.

Abigail was a student of Eric Haughton and Ogden Lindsley, the major early figures in the field of Precision Teaching; her unique specialty within the field is the counting and charting of "inners", that is the covert behaviors of thoughts, feelings, and urges, with an eye to improving these "inners" and consequently a person's attitude towards him/herself and life. Her first experiment in the counting and charting of these "inners" and how doing so changed her life, is recounted in, "A Minute a Day Makes Good Feelings Grow". Since that time the study of "inners" has continued to be her particular interest.

More about Abigail, her interests, and her writing (in fiction and poetry, as well as in science) can be found at her website.

Recently Rick Kubina interviewed Abigail on his Precision Teaching Podcast program. The interview is a fascinating account of the early days of Precision Teaching as well as her own narrative of her career and interests.

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ANNOUNCE: Precision Teaching related at the ABA International Conference in Phoenix, AZ

Brevity precludes a complete listing here, but a list of presentations, posters and meetings related to Precision Teaching at the Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABA-I) Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ (May 22-26, 2009) can be found at the Precision Teaching Hub and Wiki

A couple of events worth highlighting here,
Both on Sunday, May 24, 2009

8:00am - 8:50am STANDARD CELERATION SOCIETY BUSINESS MTG
#143 Business Meeting
North 131 BC
Chair: William J. Helsel (AGILE Learner''s Program/PLEA)

Purpose:

The Standard Celeration Society promotes use of the Standard Celeration Chart, both for furthering the science of behavior and of learning, as well as for developing practical applications based on that science. In adherence to the By-laws of the society, an annual business meeting is to be held at the ABAI Convention to discuss membership, actions of the executive group, the Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, the annual conference, and financial report.

and the
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. THE OGDEN R. LINDSLEY STANDARD CELERATION CHART SHARE
#331 Reunion
North 131 BC
Chair: Malcolm D. Neely (Standard Celeration Society)

Purpose:

The Ogden R. Lindsley Standard Celeration Chart Share provides ALL to see, hear, and share data across the behavior spectrum using daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly Standard Celeration Charts presented rapidly on overhead transparencies in spirited friendship.

8AM - 10PM
(Booyah. It's going to be a long day).
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ANNOUNCE: Updated Charting Conventions and JPTC manuscript guidelines

Recently a group of Precision Teachers, including authors of charting manuals, and under the direction of Scott Born, the SCS Admin, and Rick Kubina, Editor of the Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration painstakingly proofed and revised the prior version of the charting conventions found in the journal.

With the work currently completed, a new file including,

• Submission Guidelines,
• BASIC CHARTING CONVENTIONS for the DAILY STANDARD CELERATION CHART
• ADVANCED CHARTING CONVENTIONS for the DAILY STANDARD CELERATION CHART
  with illustrations of the basic and advanced conventions.
  

can be found at in pdf at Rick Kubina's webpage for the Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration. These conventions will be posted in the near future at the Standard Celeration Society website.

Thanks to all those who participated in the project, and especially to Scott Born, the Standard Celeration Society Administrator, for his leadership and incredible work in getting these done for the benefit of all Precision Teachers.
Thanks Scott.

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ANNOUNCE: Precision Teaching Podcasts at iTunes!

Dr. Rick Kubina and his co-host Dr. Doug Kostewicz talk about current events in the Precision Teaching world, sometimes discuss research articles and interview guests who are practitioners and researchers in Precision Teaching and use of the Standard Celeration Chart.

You can search for these podcasts at iTunes using search term "Precision Teaching" or go directly via this link and then subscribe to new podcasts.


Interviewees so far are

• Owen White, Ph.D. (University of Washington),
• Clay Starlin, Ed.D (Private practice, prior University of Oregon,),
• Shawn Datchuk, M.A. (Youngstown State, now teaching in Louisiana),
• Hank Pennypacker, Ph.D. (Emeritus, University of Florida),
• Richard McManus (Director of the Fluency Factory, Hingham, MA),
• Alison Moors, M.A., BCBA (Director of APL School, Seattle, WA),
• Abigail B. Calkin, Ph.D. (Private practice, Gustavus, AK)

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ANNOUNCE: Improved Behavior Research Co. website!

Check out the updated storefront at Behavior Research Company!

Scott Born and Nancy Hughes and the rest of the BRCo. staff have been working overtime to beautify and update the site for functionality, as well as add new items to the inventory for everything Precision Teaching!

Items of high interest are Abigail B. Calkin's new book on "inners" (behavior beneath the skin), Performance Enhancement Training: Change your thoughts, feelings, and urges, hard-copy back issues of the Journal of Precision Teaching and Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, and some interesting tee-shirts from the 2007 IPTC in Kansas City and collectible tees from the 70's (very cool, with Standard Behavior Charts on front and back, and the motto, "Care Enough to Chart")

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ANNOUNCE: The 2009 International Precision Teaching Conference

Graphic design by Scott Born, 2009


The Standard Celeration Society is pleased to announce the
2009 International Precision Teaching Conference (IPTC 2009)
Precision Teaching and Science: Candles in the Dark
October 29-31, 2009
The Pennsylvania State University

Further announcements, calls for papers, and the conference program information will be found at the website of the Standard Celeration Society

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