Tag: positivereinforcement
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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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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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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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Reinforcement didn’t work…

To say ‘reinforcement didn’t work’ doesn’t make sense, if it didn’t increase the future likelihood of a behaviour it wasn’t reinforcement in the first place. Reinforcement: anything that increases the future frequency of a behaviour. For consultants and therapists, reinforcement is one of the biggest tools in our box. It will make sessions much more…

