Everyone typically has some form of a personal goal. In order to set yourself up to succeed with these goals, you first must learn to manage your behavior. In ABA there are some strategies that can help with managing your behavior, and they are called self-management
Read MoreA task analysis is when the steps of a complicated behavior such as washing hands are broken down into smaller more manageable steps for the learner.
Read MoreA visual schedule is a series of pictures that communicate to the individual a general idea about their day. Visual schedules include a small icon (picture) for each activity during that day
Read MorePivotal Response Training, or PRT, is a child initiated, play-based therapy used for autism. PRT is used to help with the development of communication, language skills, and to increase positive social behaviors
Read MoreJoint attention is vital to language development and early word learning. It refers to the shared attention between two people and a third object or event.
Read MoreFunctional communication training (FCT) is an effective, evidence-based method to teach individuals how to replace inappropriate problem behavior with appropriate, recognizable, functional forms of communication
Read MoreShaping and chaining are two helpful techniques that you can use to teach your child many complex behaviors. Please click for more.
Read MoreModeling is a teaching technique in which the teacher demonstrates a desired behavior or response to a learner.
Read MoreHere’s an example: if you say “Where are your shoes!?” and your kids respond by getting their shoes
Read Moreit’s a verbal imitation of what comes immediately before it; an “echo” of someone else's words.
Read MoreIntraverbal is responding to the spoken (or signed) words of others without repeating exactly what the other person just said, as in a conversation
Read MoreThe easiest way to remember what a mand is is to think of it as a comMAND from the learner. Its is essentially a request from the child. A learner will mand for an item, activity or information when motivation is high
Read MoreThis principle is ideal for learners who are not yet intrinsically motivated or do not understand the greater purposes in completing tasks and non-preferred activities (like eating veggies!).
Token Economies are used as a contingency for positive reinforcement with a learner. They are a system for providing positive reinforcement to a learn by giving them tokens for completing tasks or behaviors in desired ways.
Read MorePreference assessments are assessments used to find potential reinforcers of a learner. These assessments are structured methods that are utilized to help find highly preferred items or actions, that can be used as reinforcers during therapy sessions to keep motivation levels high, when we are teaching clients.
Read MoreThe Direct Instruction method involves scripted teaching to ensure that children receive efficient instruction along with appropriate error correction procedures. Direct Instruction includes a set of teaching principles and a specifically developed curriculum.
Read MoreIncidental Teaching, also known as Natural Environment Teaching is an evidence-based practice of teaching we often use in ABA Therapy. This type of teaching is naturalistic in the fact that we use the natural environment and base the learning opportunities off of what is initiated by the child’s interests at a given point.
Read MoreThe term punishment in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis literally means for a behavior to decrease. Remember in ABA behavior is defined as anything one says or does (or anything that can be observed or measured) not just undesirable behavior. Placing “positive” (+)
Read MoreWithin Applied Behavior Analysis there are two types of reinforcement: positive and negative. Reinforcement is used to help increase the probability that a specific behavior will occur in the future by either delivering or removing a stimulus immediately after a behavior.
Read MoreBCaBA stands for Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst.
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