How many years have you been working on this? Coop and Tim and I...
Think he's gonna answer? Think he's gonna be stoked?
So you're on camera - I'll explain later
trust me... Coop and Tim and I began
the first edition in 1982 - took us five
years working with number two pencils
and legal yellow legal pads initially
and over time we got towards the
end we had to rewrite go back and redo
the first chapter - they were out of date already we
had no idea that type one what was gonna
become of where the field was going the
book but collectively we thought that it
was important the goal was to put together
an introduction to the science of
applied behavior analysis there were
then and there still are today many
excellent books that describe
applications to particular things
education special education yeah there
was not at that time a book that went
from but as science through what is
science of behavior well what is a
particular flavor of a way to look at
behavior scientific clinical applied
behavior analysis what is that
introduced the basic principles and it's
pretty it's pretty interesting what
remember remember a year ago when I
cross that book that I never delivered
got it brother! "haha, there it is!" yes...
of course that predated the
autism phenomenon BACB and credentialing
and we literally had no idea what would
happen and when and when we finished the
first thing we said we were done fact if
we said as much yeah well the breakfast
we indicated actually made a pledge it
was more than indicating inflation your
wives that that we wouldn't write
another one but we received some very
good critiques and feedback from our
colleagues took that to heart and then
didn't take it to heart for 20 years but
we did yeah we waited another 10 years
or so yeah took another another crack at
it
and and again somewhere we're gonna have
four years ago we sat down and after I
have you received some additional
feedback the field has evolved since you
know the second edition we wanted water
to capture that and not just jet not
just capture the content capture in such
a way that we could teach these
principles and procedures to persons
coming up in the field so that's why you
see some of the illustrations and charts
and graphs to provide exemplars of what
it is we're kind to show not just
words but pictures and charts and data
to underscore the points were making and
this is our last this time we're really
good, haha! Got some signatures in there for you too - "no way!"
yeah man we dedicated the second edition
it's dedicated to done there nice and
Jack Michael took the photo of don bear
that's in the second edition and the
third edition is dedicated to Jack
Michael nice and we say this book is
dedicated to Jack Michael whose
extraordinary contributions to behavior
analysis will continue to benefit those
who teach and practice the science a
most importantly those whose learning is
enhanced by its application and we we
look forward cupen Tim and I at some
point this summer a road trip we're
gonna take a road trip to Kalamazoo see
Jack and have a have the opportunity to
talk with him and just convey how much
he spent to the field that's awesome
yeah maybe you'll learn maybe not to
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