Awesome Acronyms
DDS
What is the Daily Data Sheet?
data sheets are placed here at the end of the day
Where is the binder?
You should use this to discreetly notify your BCBA about your client's behavior when your client is right next to you.
What is google chat? (or writing it out, typing in a word doc, something discreet- client dignity is so important!)
This temporary and often expected increase in the frequency, duration, or intensity of a target behavior is seen immediately after an extinction procedure is first implemented.
what is an extinction burst
This previously neutral stimulus is paired with an established reinforcer, causing it to acquire reinforcing properties on its own.
What is a conditioned reinforcer?
BSP
What's a Behavior Support Plan?
what are make it better, structured, and make it possible
A parent asks you at pickup if you'd like to come over and have dinner later that day. This term refers to the particular type of ethical violation that could occur if you go!
What are multiple relationships? ethics code 1.12
This procedure is implemented by withholding all known reinforcement for a previously reinforced problem behavior.
what's extinction
This approach includes methods like incidental teaching and natural environment training, focusing on teaching skills within the client's typical daily routines.
What are naturalistic teaching procedures?
PR/TI/D/TA
Prompt the Response, Test for independence, Distract, Test Again
This is the current set of instructions on how to run your program
What is a slice (skill acquisition plan works too but that's not a bierman-ism!)
What are the Core Principles that RBTs must uphold?
what are Behave with Integrity, Ensure their own competence, RBTs benefit others, treat others with compassion, dignity and respect
Think Bert!
Procedures such as DRO, DRA, and DRI are all types of this behavior reduction strategy.
what is differential reinforcement
This task-analyzed procedure involves prompting the learner immediately through each of the steps, and allowing them to independently respond for the final one.
what is backward chaining?
SD
what is a discriminative stimulus
We use these chart to graph our clients behavior
Standard Celeration Charts (SCC)
The type of platform where RBTs are strictly prohibited from posting identifying client information, including photos or videos
Social media! facebook! instagram, all of that!
This strategy is an antecedent intervention that involves delivering a high rate of known reinforcement on a schedule, regardless of what the client is doing.
What is Noncontingent Reinforcement (NCR)?
This specific type of prompt fading is designed to prevent the learner from making mistakes by using the most intrusive prompt necessary and quickly fading it out.
What is errorless learning (or errorless prompting)?
MASCOT
what is the acronym motivation, activity, structure, contingent, other, and teaching
We use MASCOT for this
to provide a variety of teaching tools to gain or re-establish the assent of the client and create a meaningful therapy session
The type of procedure RBTs must have supervisor verification of their competence for, and which must be included in a documented plan, before implementation
what are punishment based procedures
These four are the common reasons or effects that maintain a person's behavior: attention, access to tangibles, escape/avoidance, and automatic reinforcement.
What are the common functions of behavior?
This procedure is used to teach a new behavior by selectively reinforcing successive approximations of the target behavior until the terminal goal is achieved.
What is shaping?