Bill Ahearn, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA, Director of Research July of 2023, the Research Newsletter covered prevalence estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; Maenner et al., 2023) from its Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring network (ADDM) project. Autism prevalence was estimated to have increased to 1 in 36 children at the age […]
On June 24, WHDH Channel 7 in Boston aired a “7 Investigates” feature about NECC’s Early Markers of Autism Project. The piece focused on the Ostrowsky family, whose 10-year-old daughter Colby attends NECC’s day school program. When the Ostrowskys welcomed their second child, Camden, they knew there was a one in five chance he would […]
From May 22-26, nearly 50 staff from The New England Center for Children (NECC) attended the 51st annual Association for Applied Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) Conference in Washington, DC. During the three-day convention, 18 staff from NECC, including members from The Mohammed bin Rashid Center for Special Education operated by NECC (MRC-NECC), presented their research, […]
NECC welcomed Framingham State University Professor Mirari Elcoro, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LABA, to share her research with NECC staff. Dr. Elcoro’s presentation focused on the work of Murray Sidman, PhD, a pioneer in behavior analysis whose legacy continues to shape our understanding of learning and memory.
Over Memorial Day weekend, nearly 40 staff from The New England Center for Children (NECC) attended the 50th annual Association for Applied Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
Two NECC staff, Bill Ahearn, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA and Chata Dickson, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA, were invited to speak at the 43rd annual Florida Association of Behavioral Analysis (FABA) Conference.
What Causes Autism in Individuals? by Bill Ahearn, PhD, BCBA-D, LABA Director of Research, NECC Despite the ardent beliefs of many people that autism has a solely environmental cause such as vaccines, it has long been known that there is strong scientific evidence that autism has genetic origins. Early studies of twins suggested this may […]
Last month, more than two dozen staff from The New England Center for Children (NECC) presented their research at the 49th annual Association for Applied Behavior Analysis International (ABAI) Conference, which was held in Denver, Colorado.
Each year, ABAI holds its international conference that brings together the world’s top ABA researchers. This May, the 48th annual ABAI conference was held in Boston, where more than two dozen NECC researchers and staff shared findings from ongoing research projects at NECC.