There's a moment that happens to every behavior analyst, usually around 2 AM when you can't sleep: you realize the intervention you've been implementing with complete fidelity for the past month isn't working. The data doesn't lie, and what it's telling you is that despite your best efforts, you're not helping this kid. And then comes the spiral: Did I choose the wrong procedure? Is my functional assessment wrong? Am I missing something obvious? Should I have seen this coming? What am I going...

Let's talk about the gap between knowing what you want to do and actually doing it consistently. You know you want to read with your kids more. You know bedtime would go smoother with a consistent routine. You know family dinner would be nice if you could pull it off regularly. But knowing what you want and making it happen are two very different things. This is where small consistent routines come in. Not the color-coded, requires-military-precision kind of routines. The real, messy,...

I've sat through hundreds of intake meetings. I've conducted them, I've supervised them, I've reviewed recordings of them. And here's what I can tell you: most of us are doing them wrong. Not catastrophically wrong. Just... incompletely wrong. We're asking the questions we're supposed to ask, filling out the forms we're supposed to fill out, and somehow still walking away without the information we actually need. You know what I'm talking about. You get three sessions in and discover the...