Episode 41 - Sports Performance w/ Dr. Mallory Quinn

Meet Your Podcast Guest

Dr. Mallory Quinn is a Board Certified Behavior Analysis and holds her Ph.D., as the first graduate of the University of South Florida’s Applied Behavior Analysis Doctoral program. She has her masters in ABA from USF under the advisement of Raymond Miltenberger. Her clinical work in behavior analysis has included parent training for children in foster care, staff training, work with children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities, and teaching multiple undergraduate courses in behavior analysis at the University of South Florida, as well as developing online course material for courses in USF’s online Applied Behavior Analysis masters program. Her clinical interests include teaching, disseminating ABA, and staff training. During her time in the masters and doctoral program, she conducted research in applying behavior analysis principles to sports training, to enhance the quality of dance training of competitive dancers, and decrease the use of training methods, which focus on the use of aversive contingencies and/or punishment. She wrote a manual titled the POINTE System (POsitive INTerventions to Enhance the performance of dancers), with co-authors Kwang-Sun Blair, PhD, BCBA-D and Raymond Miltenberger, PhD, BCBA-D, so that these procedures can be disseminated to dance instructors in a user-friendly format. She tested the efficacy and feasibility of this manual in a three part study for her dissertation. She currently has three published studies on using ABA to enhance dance performance for competitive dancers in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, Journal of Behavior Analysis in Practice, and Behavioral Interventions, and has also supervised multiple studies in this area as well as in the area of teaching dance to individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities. Additionally, Mallory continues to be an avid musical theater performer in productions across Tampa, Florida, and surrounding areas. She works as a musical theater and dance instructor at two local dance studios and also as a Pure Barre fitness instructor. Periodically she choreographs local musical productions as well. She is also the owner and creator of Applied Behavior Analysis Sports Innovations (ABASI) LLC (abasportsinnovations.com). You can contact her at [email protected]. Mallory’s passion is to disseminate ABA to less known areas and individuals outside of scientists in our field, and to continue to fuse our science with athletic coaching and lesser known areas of application such as performing arts, to create more positive and effective training procedures for all involved.