Acronyms
ABA stands for what term or practice
Applied Behavior Analysis
This verbal operant's short hand definition is a "command" or "demand"
Mand
This strategy involves rearranging the client's surroundings to increase desired behaviors and reduce chances of behaviors of concern.
Environmental Manipulations
Tally of the number of occurrences
Frequency
Demonstration of the desired/target behavior with the intention of the client learning the skill through imitation.
Modeling
This term is referred to as SD
Discriminative Stimulus
This verbal operant comes under the control of a non verbal stimulus. It is otherwise known as a label.
Tact
High-probability Request Sequence
Count/frequency per time
Ratio
Method of teaching focusing on following the client's lead and teaching skills in the context where they will be used.
This term is referred to as FCT
Functional Communication Training
This verbal operant is common in social interactions and often involves question-response exchanges.
Intraverbal
A procedure for teaching alternative communication responses that serve the same purpose/function as the behavior of concern.
Functional Communication Training
Amount of time that the behavior occurs for
Duration
This teaching strategy involves successive approximations and differential reinforcement
Shaping
This schedule of reinforcement is identified as VR
Variable Ratio
An intervention in which reinforcement is delivered independent of a client's behavior and is often delivered on a time-based schedule.
Non-contingent Reinforcement
Number of responses correct over total number of responses/opportunities
Percentage
This teaching strategy is typically used to teach complex tasks, such as teeth brushing, shoe tying, cooking, etc.
Chaining
This method of training is called BST
Behavioral Skills Training
In this procedure demands are gradually reintroduced as rates of the behavior of concern remain low.
Demand Fading
Time between antecedent and response
Latency
This teaching strategy involves the components of instruction, modeling, feedback, and rehearsal and is the gold standard for staff training.
Behavioral Skills Training