Biography
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Photo Courtesy of
Sean Neilson |
Abigail B. Calkin
- born in Boston, Massachusetts
- grew up at the family home in Framingham Centre, Massachusetts
and in New York's Greenwich Village
- lived also in New Hampshire, Maine, Nova Scotia, Colorado, Scotland, Oregon,
Washington, and Kansas
- now lives with her husband in a coastal bush community
in Alaska
Education
- graduated from prep schools Grace Church School and Friends
Seminary in New York City
- B.A. from the University of Colorado with a double major
in psychology and philosophy
- studied philosophy for two years at the University of
Edinburgh in Scotland
- M.A. in special education under Barbara Bateman from the
University of Oregon
- Ph.D. in educational administration and school psychology
from the University of Kansas under Ogden R. Lindsley
Career
- special education in Colorado
- in 1965 set up the first learning disabilities classroom
in Oregon
- faculty of Western Oregon College
- school psychologist
- special and regular education administrator for the Topeka,
Kansas Schools
- consultant for Morningside Academy in the U. S. and Canada working with schools in academic difficulty
- chair of Og Lindsley's Archives Committee
- member and past president of the Standard Celeration Society, member
of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, and the National
Association of School Psychologists
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Photo Courtesy of
Swarupa Toth |
Honorary Compendia Listings
- Who's Who of Business and Professional Women
- Two Thousand Notable American Women
- Who's Who of American Women
- Who's Who in Child Development
- Outstanding Teachers in Special Education
Former Editor
- Journal of Precision Teaching and Celeration, consulting editor
- The Behavior Analyst, consulting editor
- Inscape, a literary journal, editor
- European Journal of Behavior Analysis, consulting editor, vol. 4
Writing
Her lifelong interest in writing began before she started
school: She hid in her closet and wrote fanciful tales about
the big house on the hill where she lived with her large,
extended family.
- 40 published poems
- 40 articles in the educational and behavior analytic fields of precision teaching and precision inner behavior
- education books—Pebbles, Mops, and Thimigs (1974);
Eating with a Spoon (1975); Toilet Training: Help for the Delayed Learner (1978)
- novels—Nikolin, (1994) short-listed for a Benjamin
Franklin Award; The Carolyne Letters (1995)
- nonfiction—The Night Orion Fell, a commercial fishing disaster and Coast Guard rescue; Change Your Feelings, how to change thoughts, feelings, and urges.

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