Skill Acquisition
Positive reinforcment system where tokens are exchanged for backup reinforcers chosen by the student
What is a Token Economy?
ANYthing that you do!
What is Behavior?
An intentional, nonverbal movement of the hands, head, or body used to communicate meaning, direct attention, or prompt a response primarily involving the hands, arms, or face.
What is a Gesture?
The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation
What is Ethics
Any observable and measurable behavior that interferes with learning, social functioning, or safety, or that is SOCIALLY SIGNIFICANT and targeted for decrease.
What is Problem Behavior?
This approach utilizes the learners natural motivations. Capitalizes on natural learning opportunities within the learners environment. Promotes generalization of skills to multiple environments.
What is Natural Environment Teaching?
Access to tangibles, escape, automatic/sensory, attention.
What are the functions of behavior?
An objective, observable, and measurable description of spoken language, focusing on form (topography) and function (verbal operants: mand, tact, intraverbal, echoic). It defines vocal behavior as audible, verbal communication produced by the vocal cords
What is Vocal Language?
Not sharing legal documents or information about a student others who are not directly included in the case. Such as IEP's, FBA, BIP, and others.
What is Confidentiality?
The reason why a behavior may be occuring.
What is a Function?
Highly effective for teaching new or complex skills. Involves a clear instruction, student response, and immediate feedback. Reinforcement is used to increase correct responses.
Data collected to look for patterns to help us determine what common parts of our learners day are causing the behavior to occur.
What is Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence (ABC)?
Devices that help non-verbal or speech-delayed children communicate through speech-generating tablets.
What is Augmentative and Alternative Communication?
It encompasses a safe, non-discriminatory environment where students are valued as unique individuals with autonomy, fostering engagement and psychological safety in educational settings
What is Student Dignity?
When we are describing exactly how the behavior looks so we can measure it
What is a Operational Definition?
Identifying a goal and breaking it into smaller achievable steps in which reinforcement is provided for each step.
What is Shaping?
Underlying causes that make the antecedents of behaviors even more triggering
What are Setting Events?
What are Types of Communication?
Low level behaviors that do not interfere with the learning of the student or others. Are we just trying to make the learner more typical?
What is Acceptance?
Milder behaviors that a student will engage in prior to engaging in a more severe or dangerous behavior.
What is a Precursor Behavior?
An instructional strategy that involves intermingling easy and hard teaching trials as a tactic to maintain student motivation.
What is Task Interspersal?
It's the connection you build with your students that fosters positive interactions and a supportive learning environment.
What is Rapport?
Form of communication, often serving as a non-verbal way for particularly to express needs, emotions, or desires they cannot articulate.
Repetitive, rhythmic, and seemingly purposeless movements or vocalizations
What is Stereotypy?
Planned ignoring, redirection, and prompting.