Tag: reinforcement
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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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Shaping – 3 Key Points
Forgive me for starting with a definition (I know it can be boring). Understanding shaping improved my practise so much. Shaping is the process of systematically and differentially reinforcing successive approximations to a terminal behaviour (Cooper, Heron, Heward, 2007). Simply put, it’s breaking a skill down in to small achievable steps and reinforcing those steps…
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Babies Keep You Busy!
Hey, it’s been a while So, after a 2 year break, I want to start adding to the blog again and share some ABA love. Turns out the arrival of my own little guy has been pretty time consuming! I started writing the blog for people who are new to ABA (parents or other non…
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Go on, Get Stuck in – 12 Messy Play ideas
Messy play is a right good laugh. It can serve many functions, whether it be a good pairing activity, a reinforcer, a good manding session, desensitising learners to textures, encouraging them to eat, and even incorporating goals through NET. It can all be done, and I for one, thoroughly enjoy getting a bit messy. Pinterest…
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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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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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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…
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