Ronald Allen
Professor of Practice and Director of the Doctoral Program for Behavior Analysis
Dr. Ronald Allen is a radical behaviorist and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA-D). He is trained in the experimental analysis of behavior in the tradition of both B.F. Skinner and Murray Sidman. He has many years of experience in working with children and adults with developmental disabilities, as well as individuals with acquired brain injuries. He has published and presented on a broad range of both applied and experimental research and has taught at Simmons since 2007.
Courses
- 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