Tag: specialeducation
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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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Evolving ABA Practices: A Decade of Change in the UK
I reflect on the evolving landscape of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) in the UK over the past decade, noting increased public awareness, ethical practices, and collaborative approaches. While misperceptions persist, the field has expanded its focus on individualization and diversity. Advocating for ABA remains crucial as the profession strives for higher standards.
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Teaching Group Responding: Squad School
Teaching group responding skills is super important. It’s a set of skills that most children don’t need to be taught intensively. But when they do, it can be tough! It’s really important for a person to be able to respond to group demands in order to be an independent learner in the classroom. If…
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Guest Blog – What You Need to Know About Teaching Independent Living Skills
Guest blog, boom! This is written by Holly Cowlam, an awesome BCBA in the making who has (almost) finished studying her MSc in ABA at the Tizard Centre. She has recently done a lot of work around self help skills, so it seemed fitting to tag her in! … Many skills that we come across…
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5 Things ABA Professionals Can do to Get a Foot in the Door
For most ABA programmes, the ABA team will be working with other professionals (speech and language, occupational therapists, educational psychologists, schools, nurseries etc) and it’s important to have good relationships with these different fields. These professionals already have an established say in programmes around a child with special educational needs. In the UK, my experience is…
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High Expectations
Happy New Year everyone! Back to school in January is a busy time for all. Getting back in to the routine after the holidays is always tough, for adults and kids! The new year is often a time to update targets for a learner, new term, new targets and all that. When setting goals, it’s…
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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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NET – Where Learning Should be Super Fun
Hey! Apologies for the long silence. As many people reading this may know, September is a mad month! I should be back in the game now. A large part of most programmes should consist of natural environment teaching (NET). This refers to teaching in typically occurring daily events; basically learning away from the table/clinical setting.…
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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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