User talk:Kbaird17/Applied behavior analysis

Hi Kbaird19! The format looks great. Did you copy-paste the "chaining" section of the article and use those references or have the changes already been published in the article? If the latter, it looks amazing, and I would love it if you show me how you did this. The grammar looks great. The edits are neutral. Your links to references work and are formatted well!

While looking at the article, the first thing I notice that may be a good place to edit is the introduction, or lead. While the concerns the author placed for ABA in the intro are very important, not also including the benefits listed makes the article sound slightly biased from the start. Another area I see could be added to is the concepts section. Two of the concepts are Classical and Operant conditioning. The description provides a definition but does not apply these to applied behavioral analysis. Maybe it could be mentioned how these are used as tools in ABA. There are references missing under "Measuring behavior.” Under "Methodologies developed through ABA research", the article discusses task analysis, chaining, prompting, fading, thinning a reinforcement schedule, generalization, shaping, and interventions based on an FBA. Task analysis and generalization have main articles that can have a link added to the article. Some of the other topics under this section already have links, like shaping, while some do not have links because there is no main article yet. For these sections, more can be added to these sections if you feel like there needs to be more information. Under “Interventions based on an FBA” it is not very clear what FBA is. I could not find in the article what FBA means, and it is only used once in the header and does not provide a link to a definition. The section titled “Use in the treatment of autism spectrum disorders” has been flagged for “Weasel words” with concerns of bias or unverifiable information. I am thinking that the flag may have come from phrases such as: “However, the quality of the evidence was weak.” I believe there is also plenty of room for expansion under this section with as big of a role autism spectrum treatment plays in the uses of ABA.