Ronald Allen
Professor of Practice and Director of the Doctoral Program for Behavior Analysis
- Behavior Analysis
About Me
I am a Radical Behaviorist and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D). I am trained in the Experimental Analysis of Behavior in the tradition of both B.F. Skinner and M. Sidman. I have many years of experience in working with challenging populations including children and adults with developmental disabilities, as well as individuals with acquired brain injury. I have published and presented on a broad range of both applied and experimental research and have been a Professor in the Department of Behavior Analysis at Simmons University since 2007.
What I Teach
- Legal and Ethical Issues
- Advanced Applied Behavior Analysis
- Applied Research I
- Theoretical Issues in Skinner’s Writings
- History of Applied Behavior Analysis
- Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Behavioral Medicine
Research/Creative Activities
- Management of negatively reinforced challenging behaviors
- Theoretical and applied issues in derived stimulus relations
- The formation of social conditioned reinforcers
- Schedule-induced phenomena