Tag: teaching
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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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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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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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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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