William L. Heward

William L. Heward, Ed.D., BCBA-D, is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education and Human Ecology at Ohio State University. He has taught at universities in Brazil, Japan, Portugal, and Singapore and given lectures and workshops in 25 other countries. A Fellow and Past President of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, Dr. Heward's publications include co-authoring the textbooks Applied Behavior Analysis and Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education, which together have reached more than a million readers worldwide. Let’s Make a Contract: A Positive Way to Change Your Child’s Behavior, coauthored with his wife Dr. Jill Dardig, embodies their shared mission of putting the power and potential of behavior analysis for positive behavior change directly in the hands of end users, in this case families and professionals who support them. Bill has also written for the popular market. Some Are Called Clowns: A Season with the Last of the Great Barnstorming Baseball Teams chronicled his five summers as a pitcher for the Indianapolis Clowns.