Tag: verbalbehaviour
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Why Teach Across the Verbal Operants?
First of all, should probably say what a verbal operant actually is. B.F. Skinner was a top bloke. His contribution to the field is sensational. In 1957, he wrote a particularly influential book; Verbal Behaviour. In this book, he outlined the verbal operants. A verbal operant is essentially a unit of language; a broken-down category,…
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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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Manding – A Very Important Target!
This is a juicy one. Once you’re paired with your learner, you should begin manding. A mand is a request for a desired item/activity/action/information. The word ‘mand’ is derived from ‘demand or command’. This skill area is very important as it allows learners to access their environment and communicate their needs. The more functional requests…
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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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