Research Articles

Justin Leaf, Founder of CBC, is also the Director of Research for Autism Partnership Foundation. Through his work at APF, Justin has over 100 peer reviewed research articles. His work though Autism Partnership Foundation is leading the field of ABA in moving towards a more progressive and empirical approach. Below is just a sampling of the research completed by Justin and his team. Please visit Autismpartnershipfoundation.org (or click below) to learn more, explore CEU opportunities, or donate to this great cause!

Soulaga, D., Leaf, J.B., Taubman, M., McEachin, J., Leaf, R.B. (2008). A comparison of

     flexible prompt fading and constant time delay for five
     children with autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2, 753-765.

Leaf, J.B., Taubman, M., Bloomfield, S., Palos-Rafuse, L., Leaf, R.B., McEachin, J. & 

     Oppenheim, M. L.  (2009). Increasing social skills and pro-social behavior for three 

     children diagnosed with autism through the use of a teaching package. Research in 

     Autism Spectrum Disorders, 3, 275-289.

Oppenheim, M. (2009).Increasing social skills and pro-social behavior for three     

     children diagnosed with autism through the use of a teaching package. Research in 

     Autism Spectrum Disorders, 3, 275-289.

Leaf, J.B., Dotson, W., Oppenheim, M. L., Sheldon, J.B., & Sherman, J.A. (2010). The   

     effectiveness of a group teaching interaction for young children with a pervasive 

     developmental disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 4, 186-198.

Leaf, J. B., Sherman, J. A., & Sheldon, J. B. (2010). Comparison of simultaneous

     prompting and no-no prompting in two choice discrimination learning with 

     children with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 43, 215-228.

Leaf, R. B., Taubman, M., McEachin, J. J., Leaf, J. B., & Tsuji, K. H. (2011). A program 

     description of a community-based intensive behavioral intervention program for 

     individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Education and Treatment of Children, 

     34, 259-285.

Leaf, J.B., Dotson, W., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Sheldon, J.B., Sherman, J.A. (2012). A 

     programmatic description of a social skills group for
     young children with autism. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 32, 111-121

Leaf, J. B., Tsuji, K. H., Griggs, B., Edwards, A., Taubman, M., McEachin, J., Leaf, R., & 

     Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L. (2012). Teaching social skills to children with autism using 

     the cool versus not cool procedure. Education and Training in Autism and 

     Developmental Disabilities, 47, 165- 175.

Leaf, J. B., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Call, N. A., Sheldon, J. B., & Sherman, J. A., Taubman,  

     M., McEachin, J., Dayharash, J., & Leaf, R. (2012). Comparison of the teaching 

     interaction procedure to social stories for people with Autism. Journal of Applied 

     Behavior Analysis, 45, 281-298.

Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Leaf, J.B., Dozier, C., Sheldon, J. B., & Sherman, J.A. (2012). 

     Teaching Typically Developing Children to Promote Social Play with their siblings 

     with Autism. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 6, 777-791.

Leaf, J. B., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Leaf, R. B., Courtermanche, A.B.,  Taubman, M., 

     McEachin, J., Sheldon, J. B., & Sherman, J. A. (2012). Observational effects on 

     preference for three children on the autism spectrum. Journal of Applied Behavior 

     Analysis, 45, 473-483.

Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Leaf, J.B., & Call, N. A. (2012). Teaching Board Games to Two 

     Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Developmental and Physical 

     Disabilities, 24, 347-358

Leaf, J. B., Tsuji, K. H., Lentell, A., McEachin, J. J., Taubman, M., Leaf, R. B., & 

     Oppenheim-Leaf, M. (2012). A comparative analysis of one-to-one instruction to 

     group instruction for children diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. 

     Behavioral Interventions

Kuyumjian, A., Taubman, M., Rudrud, E., Edwards, A., Leaf, J. B., Schulze, K., McEachin, 

     J., & Leaf, R. (2013). Utilizing teaching interactions to facilitate social skills in the 

     natural environment. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental 

     Disabilities, 48, 245-257.

Taubman, M., Papovich, S., Leaf, R.B., McEachin, J., Siembiedia, M., & Leaf, J.B. (2013). A 

     comparison of data collection techniques used with discrete trial teaching. 

     Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7, 1026-1034.

Leaf, J. B., Leaf, R., Taubman, M., McEachin, J., & Delmolino, L. (2014).

     Comparison of flexible prompt fading to error correction for children with autism 

     spectrum disorder. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 26, 203-224.

Leaf, J. B., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Leaf, R. B., Taubman, M., McEachin, J., Parker, T., 

     Waks, A. B., & Mountjoy, T. (2015). What is the proof? A methodological review of 

     studies that have utilized social stories. Education and Training in Autism and 

     Developmental Disabilities, 50, 127-141. 

Leaf, J. B., Kassardjian, A., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Tsuji, K. H., Dale, S., Alcalay, A., 

     Leaf, J. A., Ravid, D., Miline, C., Leaf, R., Taubman, M., & McEachin, J. (2015). 

     Observational effects of preference selection for four children on the autism 

     spectrum: A replication. Behavioral Interventions,30, 256-269.

Leaf, J. B., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Townley-Cochran, D., Leaf, J. A., Alcalay, A., 

     Milne, C., Kassardjian, A., Tsuji, K., Dale, S., Leaf, R., Taubman, M., & McEachin, J. 

     (2016). Changing preference from tangible to social activities through an 

     observational conditioning procedure. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 49, 1-9.

Leaf, J. B., Leaf, R., McEachin, J., Taubman, M., Ala’i-Rosales, S., Ross, R. K., Smith, 

     T, & Weiss, M. J. (2016). Applied Behavior Analysis is a Science and, Therefore, 

     Progressive. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 46, 720-731.  

Leaf, J. B., Kassardjian, A., Oppenheim-Leaf, M. L., Cihon, J. H., Taubman, M., Leaf,

     R.., & McEachin, J. (2016). Social thinking®: Science, pseudoscience, or antiscience? 

     Behavior Analysis in Practice.    

Leaf, J. B., Leaf, R., McEachin, J., Taubman, M., Smith, T., Harris, S. L., Freeman, B. J., 

     Mountjoy, T., Parker T., Streff, T., Volkmar, F, R., & Waks, A. (2017). Concerns 

     about the registered behavior technician™ in relation to effective autism 

     intervention. Behavior Analysis in Practice.

Leaf, J. B., Mitchell, E., Townley-Cochran, D., McEachin, J., Taubman, M., & Leaf, R. 

     (2017). Comparing social stories™ to cool versus not cool. Education and   

      Treatment of Children.