#2 Dr Abigail Calkin - An Extraordinary Life - Part 2

In this episode, we welcome back Dr. Abigail B. Calkin as she continues to share her extraordinary journey through Behavior Analysis and Precision Teaching, especially on her move to Kansas to earn a Ph.D. under the supervision of Ogden Lindsley.

She also taps into some interesting parts of her life where she developed the one-minute timing method in order to change her behavior and relationships, how she learned Russian using SAFMEDS, and how charting has helped her find out and minimize her epileptic episodes. She then talks about ‎AimStar Lite, a project that aims to make charting much easier and faster for users of the standard celeration chart.

HIGHLIGHTS

03:16 Abigail's very close friendship with Diana Dean led her to get a Ph.D. in Kansas under Ogden Lindsley's guidance

21:36 Abigail describes some of their family projects which include counting their behavior, and talks about exposing her 5-year-old son to Precision Teaching 

26:15 Her views on Errorless Learning and how she learned Russian using SAFMEDS

34:27 Precision Teaching and the classes she took at Kansas University

41:03 How Abigail practiced the 'one-minute timing' technique to change her behavior and relationships

57:57 How her supervision and mentorship with Ogden looked like and her thoughts on how the Behavior Bank was contributed to Behavior Analysis 

1:13:54 Abigail's life and career after completing her Ph.D. and on learning about her epilepsy

1:19:08 What charting has shown her to minimize the effects of epilepsy

1:42:00 Abigail remains hopeful on the use of Standard Celeration Chart not just within Behavior Analysis but also in other fields of work 

1:47:40 Introducing the AimStar Lite— a project in which Abigail is involved in

 

RESOURCES

You can learn more about Abigail on her website: http://www.abigailbcalkin.com/ 

Learn more about the Standard Celeration Society: https://celeration.org/ 

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QUOTES

31:18 "Did I worry about whether I made an error? No. When I do a reading of something I've written (...) you know, it's nice to be able to read absolutely fluently and never make a mistake but that's not me. And so I gloss over and I cover it up, I go back, something like that. I figure in learning, you make mistakes. A mistake is an opportunity to learn how to do something better."

38:15 "You have to have standardization on measurement. Blood pressure is standardized. Carbon dating is standardized. All of these things that my father would bring home as ideas and talk about, they're standardized. And so why not standardize the measurement of learning?"

44:02 "I started doing a one-minute timing and in 2 weeks, I had flipped it around. I was counting all day; positive feelings, negative feelings, positive thoughts, negative thoughts, missed opportunities for both... and that made the difference. It took the negative, unpleasant thoughts and feelings down, and it boosted the positive ones."