Michael Nicolosi

Michael Nicolosi PhD, Psychologist, Behavior Analyst, Co-founder of Data Driven ABA Licensed
Psychologist (Switzerland) and BCBA-D®.

Doctoral-level behavior analyst and psychologist specializing in data-driven, high-intensity ABA for
adolescents and young adults with autism. Research-to-practice focus on single-case designs,
verbal behavior and conversation training, reading instruction, parent-mediated interventions, and
ethical practice within neurodiversity frameworks. Peer-reviewed first-author publications with growing impact (Google Scholar: citations 10, h-index 2,
i10-index 0). Extensive higher-education and VCS teaching experience (120 structured courses;
3,400+ hours taught), course leadership in ABAI-Verified sequences, and consistent service as
session chair/presenter at ABAI/EABA/ECABA meetings. Co-founder and board member of
ENBA and the Radical ABA SIG; Co-founder of Data Driven ABA (Switzerland).

Case Series KIDS 1st Ed. – Lesson 1-3-26ANONYMOUS SATISFACTION SURVEYTopics: Lab activities; when the child “forgets” or...
04/03/2026

Case Series KIDS 1st Ed. – Lesson 1-3-26
ANONYMOUS SATISFACTION SURVEY

Topics: Lab activities; when the child “forgets” or “didn’t understand”: the technical causes (no unicorns) and how to fix the problem

Instructor: Michael Nicolosi, PhD, Behavior Analyst
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Participant comments (anonymous):

1. The theory part was beautiful, two hours flew by—thank you for all the new information you gave us.

2. Wonderful lesson!!

3. Today’s lesson was spectacular.

4. Interesting insights that are immediately usable.

5. Thx prof.

6. With this lesson, the course reached perfection. How to merge theory with practice—Michael allowed us to reason, analyze, break the problem down to find the solution. Amazing course, unbelievable Michael!!!!

7. The course is excellent. It’s me who has a lot of difficulty learning well and putting it into practice. This wipes out my MO.

8. The lesson was especially rich in practical examples and in invitations from the instructor to find strategies to solve problems by applying the principles and the methodology. I found it very engaging and stimulating in the—albeit difficult—task of trying to come up with an answer. Thank you very much.

9. Wonderful lesson… I really appreciated the format, because I’ve always felt that practical examples help even more than theory—undoubtedly essential—but then seeing what it should actually look like, or what can happen, helps much more in being able to face any eventual problem later. As always, endless thanks Michael.

10. Really good shift in today’s lesson! It’s an amazing course, super useful. Thank you Michael, thanks to all the participants too!

11. The impact of today’s lesson was truly effective for me. We reasoned through how we might solve some problems or build new learning starting from practical examples presented by the students. Very useful to have more time windows structured like this—maybe even more than the students’ optional labs, which fragment the time too much. For me it’s a really well-designed course! I like it a lot! And having Michael at the helm is a guarantee of success…. but why am I even saying that!? :D

12. The candidate today did a great job—many good protocol examples useful for me too, and I was a bit overwhelmed after the debate.

13. Even though today we only did 1 slide, the examples brought in were incredibly useful to understand better. And even if you’re tough, Michael, when you correct our behavior (unicorns), at least we realize it. Sooner or later we’ll make it—thanks Michael!

14. For me it would be fine to continue with this topic, and the way the lesson went today is fine too.

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03/03/2026

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03/03/2026

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DDA Case Series Adults - 2nd Ed. – Lesson 26-2-26ANONYMOUS SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRETopics: ABA interventions to reduce...
01/03/2026

DDA Case Series Adults - 2nd Ed. – Lesson 26-2-26
ANONYMOUS SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE

Topics: ABA interventions to reduce obsessive behaviors

Instructor: Michael Nicolosi, PhD, Behavior Analyst
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Participants’ comments:

1. Excellent practical tools. Thank you

2. Thanks to all the participants who put themselves out there! It’s not a given to show your face while sharing your private life. Thanks to their experiences, we have the opportunity to see Michael in action as he tackles the problem from multiple angles—spectacular! And the final discussion always brings new learning, like tonight on how to build IC with adults without a diagnosis.

3. Very interesting throughout, you never get bored. I wonder if I’ll be able to break some of the bars of my prison

4. It’s late to write everything I’d like to say about this lesson, so I’ll sum it up in one sentence: you’re great, Michael!

5. Very dense and interesting session. Great job, Michael

6. Extraordinary lesson, thank you so much for everything!

7. SPECTACULAR LESSON!!! INFINITE THANKS FOR YOUR DEDICATION IN SHARING BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS WITH US ADULTS TO SOLVE OUR LIFE PROBLEMS. WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO TAKE PART IN THIS COURSE!!!

8. Always very interesting

9. What a Thursday evening!

10. Extremely pleasant and interesting lesson; it “opened” many avenues for reflection and helped us highlight many mechanisms that in theory are a bit more difficult to learn.

11. Super course tonight, great lesson. Thank you

12. As always, clear, thorough, and precise

13. Super lesson!

14. Extraordinary lesson, Michael! As always engaging and full of practical ideas to implement right away.

ABA Basic Online Course - Ed.10 XL-P - 2-28-26ANONYMOUS SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRELast lesson, end of the course, and… h...
01/03/2026

ABA Basic Online Course - Ed.10 XL-P - 2-28-26
ANONYMOUS SATISFACTION QUESTIONNAIRE

Last lesson, end of the course, and… honored.

Topics covered: Ethics

Instructor: Michael Nicolosi, PhD, Behavior Analyst
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Participant comments (anonymous):

1. Today concludes an incredible journey, where we learned there is no limit to teaching—everyone can learn with the right, evidence-based tools. Infinitely grateful for all the teaching, the very explanatory videos of the procedures to apply, the feedback on the labs with our children, the listening, and the immense work you do. Thanks to all the Data Driven members and above all to our immense Prof. Michael Nicolosi
See you at the next course! I can’t wait for the chance to enroll.

2. In the meantime, thank you for everything I’ve learned and everything I will learn! DDR was not just a course—it was much more. It taught me that we parents can do much more; we have the power to do it with the right tools, by studying and applying real ABA. You changed my life for the better. My MO was seeing my son, as you always do inside you Michael, flourish. One day, I hope not too far away, to meet you in person. Everyone, of course. I can’t wait to take the next advanced course.

3. Finishing this extremely important course, which changed my view of how we can help our children in a scientific and proven way. Thank you so much, Michael, for your preparation and for making all the tools available to learn better. I will never be able to thank you enough, and all the members of Data Driven as well.

4. What can I say? It was an amazing course. It taught me, as a parent, to manage many issues that I had unknowingly taught my son. I learned to tell apart the “pot-and-pan peddlers at a local fair” from better-trained professionals. I learned; now I have tools that will certainly be incredibly useful to me in the future. Thank you Michael, Nicola, Satia, Francesca, and the entire Data Driven team. It’s definitely a “see you later,” because I’m not letting you go anymore!

5. It’s not only parents who cry at the end of this course. I’m an educator, and “THANK YOU” is not enough for the tools you gave me. The glasses you provided are powerful. Now it’s time to keep studying. I’m looking forward to learning how to continue training with you. I will miss you so much. Spending weekends with you and my colleagues was an opportunity I can’t end here. Thank you. See you soon. Sara.

6. The course should last longer—too short! Just kidding!!! It was a big commitment, but the kind that, when it ends, you wish it would last forever. Thank youuuuu

7. Last lesson truly interesting, like all the others in the course: Michael is always thorough and clear, a real guide these months.

8. This course truly changes your life. Reaching the end of the training path makes you cry. We’ll miss you, Micheal, and we’ll miss your blunt, direct, and a bit crude way of being. I know I’ll keep seeing you in the advanced courses, webinars, etc.

9. Thanks to the entire Data Driven group—you made possible a turning point in our life that 1 year ago was unimaginable for us. Thank you from the heart.

10. There would be so many things to say—“thank you for everything” is extremely reductive!! Michael, you and your team have changed my life, my family’s life, and above all my little blond boy’s life for the better!! The work behind every step is a lot, but I finally see the light at the end of this tunnel… seeing that little one dress and undress on his own, set his place at the table, point to everything he wants is not a dream—it’s work done thanks to your support and your professionalism!!! I WILL NEVER LET YOU GO. I also wanted to thank the fabulous class with whom I had the pleasure of sharing this journey… every intervention, question, and live session enriched this trip!! Thank you, I would take this course 1000 more times—actually I’m waiting for the advanced ones.

11. Thank you Michael for these months spent together. I learned what ABA is—the real one—and I’m immensely grateful to you.

12. I thank the entire DDA group: you are truly wonderful.

13. Excellent course. Exceptional workers. I’m telling every person I know. You are unique. Thank you Michael.

14. I can’t believe this extraordinary journey has ended. In tears, I say thank you Michael for every single lesson, every teaching, all the tools, and the extraordinary things we saw and are putting into practice. It’s not a course—it’s a path that completely changes your life. It’s the best investment I could have made for my son’s future. Thanks to the whole DDA team and thanks to the great and superlative Prof. Michael… I love you because you were able to give us a second life. IMMENSE!!!

15. It was an honor to know you, thank you.

16. I’m so sad it’s ending—I will definitely enroll as an auditor!! Thanks to all my colleagues and above all to you, Micheal, but also to all the professors who helped us go deeper! Thank you thank you thank you.

17. A course that changed the way I live my life and my family’s life. It’s not only study, but applying Science in the way you live—of every behavior, of every thought. I will never stop being grateful for having had the honor to study with professionals of the level of DATA DRIVEN ABA and with parents like those I met in this course. Change is possible!

18. Last lesson. How will we do??? Desperation… But the results I got thanks to this course with my son keep me going with so, so much strength! Thank you Michael and thank you DATA DRIVEN ABA. Thank you so much. Truly.

19. Last lesson—these were wonderful months, thank you Micheal for this opportunity. This basic course was enlightening; it gave me important practical and theoretical tools. You will remain, together with your superhero Colleagues, forever in my heart. I will continue to train and I won’t stop as long as you give us parents the chance to train! I feel lucky to have had the honor to know you and also to have met all my course colleagues, to whom I wish to reach great goals! Thank you thank you, Lucia.

20. I would have preferred to go deeper on the lesson about CP, too bad.

21. I hoped this last lesson would arrive as late as possible because now there’s an indescribable emptiness in terms of: knowledge, training, opportunities, science, positive reinforcers on multiple levels. Michael, thank you because you spend so much to train others; thank you because you do everything you can to create autonomy in those who must guide children and young people with disabilities; thank you for the awareness you help people develop; thank you for the immense training you provide. Ok, it’s your job, but there are different ways to carry it out—it’s a matter of choices. It’s true, Skinner taught us that free will doesn’t exist. So let’s put it this way: I’m happy because the contingencies you lived through brought you in this direction. Thank you again Michael, I’m happy to have placed my teaching freedom in your hands; I hope to repay you (indirectly) excellently. I look forward eagerly to continuing the journey with you at Data Driven.

22. Thank you Michael, you are our strength—your interesting lessons allowed me to understand how to act.

23. It’s time for goodbyes and tears. I have never learned so much in a course. I will be forever grateful for the teachings you gave me. We are seeing changes. Others are also seeing changes and finally understanding the importance of ABA. I will continue to follow all your courses. And I will never forget you.

24. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU… the last day of the course—how sad… how many things you made us learn… I suggest everyone take this wonderful and amazing course… you are amazing, a well of knowledge… I wish you all the good in the world… I hope you don’t abandon us… THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU…

25. Michael, you and the whole Data Drive group are the hope for all of us parents who want to help our children… I’m crying… today is the last day of the course and I’m scared… please don’t abandon us…

26. Last lesson, extremely important topic: ethics. Michael, you’re the top. All my respect, all my trust. Thank you. Non ti pagara dinai! (translation: you’re priceless!)

27. I’m disappointed in the course only because in the study group we created they didn’t feel like studying and most people were never present; basically since December no one connected. Hopefully for the next courses—I hope you set some rules.

28. A course that turned our family’s life around, and now we keep working! Thank you from the heart.

29. A powerful experience, a great experience—at times a devastating experience because it revolutionizes the way you think, the way you see things; an experience that shakes you because you see with your own eyes all the time and money you wasted following people “trained, according to them,” who produced micro-results over the years—results that I myself surpassed in just a little month working with my son while following the basic course! When the course ends, you’re just hungry to start others, and that happens because you begin to see results—results that were previously unthinkable! Michael and the whole team are a separate story; everything I saw before makes no sense to exist, stuff that counts for nothing in comparison! Thank you Michael, thank you DDA… it reassures me to think this course is only the beginning!

01/03/2026

Event starts: Friday, March 20, 2026 03:00 PM Europe/Warsaw

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