Tag Archives: Irith Bloom

Training Tuesday: BAT Calming Signals, Some Visuals

By Edie Jarolim | Published: August 17, 2010
As part of the continuing series on Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT), a system created by Grisha Stewart that trainer Irith Bloom has been kind enough to explain to me — and you –on the last several Training Tuesdays,  here’s a video that Irith put together. It demonstrates calming signals, discussed in our last post on [...]
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Training Tuesday: Batboy Forever

By Edie Jarolim | Published: August 3, 2010
This is the conclusion of the formal interview that I’ve been conducting with trainer Irith Bloom about Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT), which was created by Grisha Stewart. The first week we covered the basic theory and techniques. In the second, we got into some more esoteric issues like “negative punishment,” which turns out not to [...]
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Training Tuesday: Batboy Continues

By Edie Jarolim | Published: July 27, 2010
Forgive me. I needed to get this video out of my system and since I don’t have any serious footage to accompany this week’s post on Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT) it seemed like the perfect fit. *** BAT was created by Grisha Stewart, and is being discussed here by her fellow trainer and BAT expert [...]
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Training Tuesday: Batboy begins

By Edie Jarolim | Published: July 20, 2010
As I mentioned last week, my trainer Crystal suggested that Frankie and I try Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT) — not only because it’s a good technique but because it’s a good fit with Frankie’s diabetes. That is, although the technique can include food rewards, it doesn’t rely on them. I wanted to learn more about [...]
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