By Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D
Founding Editor, bSci21.org
A recent study by Bergstrom, Najdowski, and Tarbox (2014) in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis successfully taught children with autism how to respond to strangers’ attempts to lure them away from their front yard or store settings. Of course, real strangers were not used in the study and the children were never in any danger. Instead…