Feb 10, 2024 | Presentations, Social Validity
Register now for the Partners in ABA Conference to join Dr. Tessa Taylor, Ph.D., BCBA-D for “Incorporating Social Validity into Practice: Treatment Progression Across Paediatric Feeding Skill Domains.”
Speaker Spotlight
Dr. Taylor is the founder of Paediatric Feeding International (Australia) where she is a behavior analyst and clinical psychologist in addition to serving at the University of Canterbury e Whare Wānanga o Waitaha (New Zealand). Her session will focus on outcome measures in pediatric feeding intervention and methods to assess social validity.
Jun 11, 2022 | Publications, Social Validity
Surprisingly, despite its importance and attention given in discussion currently in our field, supporting data and research are very much lacking. Data are needed in paediatric feeding to help accurately disseminate this highly important, effective, acceptable, and valued treatment, increasing access to treatment for families in need to improve their quality of life, and increasing opportunities for training/education for professionals. This is the first report to our knowledge to analyse social validity data comprehensively across variables such as participant characteristics, goals, treatment processes, treatment components, and outcomes. Ratings were high across the board (4.8 & 4.9 out of 5). Check out the results/graphs/tables! Future research could get caregiver input to design assessments, and use methods to analyse open-ended data (as in Anderson et al., 2021), in addition to the extensions to this work in Taylor & Taylor 2022b.
Apr 19, 2022 | Featured, Publications, Resources, Social Validity
Free editable surveys to use! Check out the supplementary docs for this article (scroll to the bottom at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bin.1879). These could be used by both practitioners and researchers, and adapted for any area of ABA, not just feeding. Lots of clinical utility and future directions for further research.
Oct 23, 2021 | Publications, Social Validity
https://doi.org/10.1002/bin.1832 New free full text article! Social validity is such an important issue especially in paediatric feeding treatment. However, despite it being a hot topic, there is a big lack of research on it both overall, and on how to assess it....
