Amy Wonkka
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5,846 appearances
36 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 21 Sep
Amy Wonkka’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And again, behavior analysis kind of lives on their own island here.
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Uh, you know, with a with a slightly different definition of what be what would be considered evidence as an extreme example that I'll give.
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I was told once by a behavior analyst, I was promoting for a client of mine to an AAC user to use aided language simulation and to use aided language modeling.
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Um, and I was this was a behavior analyst that was providing services in the home.
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I was working as part of the school system as a contractor.
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Uh, and I was talking about have supporting mom, uh, the family at home using aided language modeling in some capacity in the home.
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embedded icons or what have you.
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And the behavior analyst told me, and I am this is a true story, that unless I could produce an article from Java, which is the journal of applied behavior analysis, they would not do it.
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Because their definition of evidence was not the many years of peer reviewed research that we had in our field.
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It had to be out of a behavior analytic journal.
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Which I and this was about eight, nine, ten years ago.
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I'm pretty sure there's evidence in there now, just in case anybody gets that question.
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But I I think it's important again with this perspective taking, thinking about what other professionals are bringing to the table.
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And I love what you said about
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Approaching it with curiosity and finding that common ground of okay, I my my definitions of evidence is different, but what is here that I can move forward with?
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What is here in this conversation that I can ask more about, that I can learn more about?
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Because maybe we are talking using the same words, but we have different definitions of these words.
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And if I approach this with curiosity,
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and ask more questions, that facilitates finding that common ground, releasing some of that tension and again, holding your client at the center of what you're doing because that is the point.
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Now I've gone off on a tangent.
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