Tag: appliedbehaviouranalysis
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7 Teaching Procedures to Smash ITT
Table work, ITT (intensive table teaching), DTT (discrete trial training), are all ways of talking about working at the table. The following teaching procedures are taken from the excellent Carbone et al (2010) paper. These teaching procedures will make table sessions, and pretty much all teaching, more effective. Most importantly, they get your learner…
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Leg it to the Table!
So, with some learners, it’s appropriate to be running ‘table sessions’. A table session is an intensive teaching period of many tasks to provide a lot of opportunities to teach targets. As a general rule, I wouldn’t run table sessions with pre school age children, as most of those programmes are based around natural environment…
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Challenging Behaviour – Part 3
We should always keep the learners’ safety and dignity as paramount. It’s also important to rule out any medical issues when dealing with problem behaviour. One very important thing to consider when working on decreasing challenging behaviour is an extinction burst. An extinction burst basically means that when you start working on reducing problem…
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Challenging Behaviour – Part 2
When working on reducing problem behaviour you need to be sure to deny any reinforcement related to the antecedent when problem behaviour occurs. Here are some common reasons challenging behaviour may occur, with typical consequences we should deliver in brackets; Lack of effective communication (requests) (the ‘count and mand’ procedure could be used for…
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Challenging Behaviour – Part 1
This will be part 1 of 3 on challenging behaviour. There’s a lot that could be covered, so I thought I would spread them across 3 posts to not overwhelm readers! First, the following point should be noted. I’ve heard people say something like, ‘little Jonny had a behaviour in the last session’; well…
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14 Reinforcers for Older Learners
This list is by no means exhaustive, but hopefully gives some ideas for more age appropriate reinforcers for older learners. We should always try and keep things age appropriate, but not at the cost of losing reinforcers altogether! Fruit Ninja Temple Run Flick Kick Football Top Trumps Lego Puzzles Books Music DVD Mini Basketball Hoop…
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Manding – A Very Important Target!
This is a juicy one. Once you’re paired with your learner, you should begin manding. A mand is a request for a desired item/activity/action/information. The word ‘mand’ is derived from ‘demand or command’. This skill area is very important as it allows learners to access their environment and communicate their needs. The more functional requests…
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16 of my Favourite Reinforcers
Over the years, I’ve built a pool of reinforcers that I like to give a go, and most of these are amongst my kit. Crazy Soap Bionic Putty Bubble Snake Blower Fibre Optic Fountain Bubble Lamp Balloons Water Balloon Moody Squeeze Fa Water Snake Hot Water Bottle Slinky Expandable Flashing Bounce Spike Playdoh Spinning Top…
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3 and a ½ Top Assessments – My Favourite Assessments
Assessment days are manic. You never really know how it’s going to go. I arrive, boxes of resources, ready to work my socks off. It can certainly be a struggle fitting a whole assessment in in one day, but it depends on different factors; how much problem behaviour (if any) the learner engages in, and…
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6 Top Drawer Blogs
Sam Blanco BCBA – http://samblanco.com/blog/ This is a great blog for teaching ideas through play and games. The blogger links goals to the VB MAPP and ABLLS-R, and covers a range of skill areas. Also prices and information about the resources she uses are provided. Cracking resource this blog. Tameika Meadows, BCBA – http://www.iloveaba.com…
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