by leylinder | Oct 20, 2025 | Big Ideas, Big Ideas Featured
To Whom I am Indebted, I’ve always known we would be together. Our story is not one of “love at first sight”, but rather a love story rooted in destiny. You see, I was born to love you. My parents met you in the 1970s, when you first began winning fights for your...
by leylinder | Oct 19, 2025 | Behavior Presentations of Medical Conditions
George is a 49-year-old man with a moderate intellectual disability who communicates with short phrases, comprehends simple verbal communication, and is quite observant of his environment. When he moved to his new home approximately 12 months ago, he had a...
by leylinder | Oct 18, 2025 | Clinically Speaking
So often, we, as a group of family members, professionals, and caregivers, find ourselves lost when discussing the management of behavioral needs for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and dementia. We are lost in the abyss of social media “expertise,”...
by leylinder | Oct 17, 2025 | Big Ideas, Big Ideas Featured
The truth is, everything I know about behavior I learned in one night, working in a 4-Diamond restaurant in Charleston, SC. I was in my early 20s, covering a shift in a short staffed kitchen alongside one of my closest friends, Ryan. Memories are fuzzy and the...
by leylinder | Oct 16, 2025 | Think Like a Behavioral Analyst
Introducing the World’s Crappiest Behavior Analyst In the movie Forrest Gump, Bubba Blue was Forrest’s best friend and the enterprising shrimp aficionado who helped create a multi-million-dollar shrimp boat business. Remember how much Bubba knew about...