The New England Center for Children’s Chief Program Officer, Susan Langer, MS, BCBA, LABA, joins the show to talk about her time at NECC, her current role, and the future of the Center. 

On this episode of the NECC Now Podcast,Dave Palmer, Jon Pinkston, Jason Bourret, and Western New England University graduate students continue the discussion of how response classes operate and how we might optimally speak of them. We discuss several examples and flesh out implications. As usual, Dave appears to be correct. Dave Palmer is a Professor […]

In this episode of the NECC Now Podcast,Dave Palmer, Jon Pinkston, Jason Bourret, and WNEU graduate students discuss the final reply by Edwards et al. (2019) to the motivating operation discussion. Edwards et al. defend their arguments, we discuss and add our own interpretations. Dave Palmer is a Professor Emeritus at Smith College and WNEU faculty. […]

In this episode of the NECC Now Podcast, Dave Palmer, Jason Bourret, and Western New England University graduate students discuss a series of replies to the Edwards et al. (2019) paper. The response papers were written by eminent members of our field and cover a lot of ground. They discuss empirical work speaking to how the […]

On the second episode of the NECC Now Podcast, Dave Palmer, Jason Bourret, and Western New England graduate students discuss Edwards et al. (2019), a recent article in which a reconceptualization of the motivating operation concept is proposed. We talk about the defining features of the motivating operation concept, the proposed change, implications, and our read on the […]

In the first episode of the NECC Now Podcast, NECC’s Chief Development Officer Jared Bouzan joins the show to talk about his background, fundraising at NECC, and what’s gone into preparing for NECC’s special events during the pandemic.