Tag: interventions
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The Power of Behavioural Skills Training: How BST Helps Children Develop Life Skills
If you want to learn about some of the reasons BST is amazing, then keep reading. I absolutely love BST. It’s one of my favourite and most used tools. Behavioural Skills Training (BST) provides an evidence based framework to teach an abundance of skills ranging from… Why is BST Effective? Well, to name a few……
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5 ABA principles that Speech and Language Therapists Use
This guest post is from Trisha Pranjivan at The Children’s Place
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Manding for Information – Teaching WH Requests
Manding for information is an important skill. I ask questions all day. Manding for information refers to the process in which information becomes a conditioned reinforcer as it leads to an already established reinforcer. So basically, ask a question, and use the information to do/get something useful. Here’s an example; Learner: ‘where’s the iPad?’ (this…
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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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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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What is VB?
So, another abbreviation – VB, what is that? Is it still ABA? How is it different? VB (also known as VBA, AVB, ABA/VB) stands for verbal behaviour, and it refers to B.F. Skinners analysis of verbal behaviour. It’s all I’ve ever done, so I’m a big fan. Like my previous post, this is a big…
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