Play, ADL's, Social Skills
Why do you teach play chains?
1. Helps reduce problem behaviors from occurring
2. Learn to independently engage in activities in their free time
How do you always start a table session?
By pairing and manding with the child. You want them to be excited and motivated to start the session.
What is a mand? Why do we teach it?
A request
So they can functionally request items. To decrease behaviors
What does pairing mean?
Being the giver of good things!
What is the sheet called that you write all the information on per day?
Daily Data Sheet
What are 3 ADL's you can teach?
Brushing teeth, Handwashing, Buying Lunch
What is the procedure when a child is using the token board? Tell me everything from the beginning to when you start running programs.
Start with pairing and manding, then ask them what they want to work for, tell them how many tokens they need, start with maintenance.
What is a tact? What is the SD you typically use when asking a tact program?
"What is it?"
How many times do you teach targets after you probe them for the first time of the day?
2
When do you graph cumulative data?
Fridays
Name 3 social skills you can teach?
Giving a compliment, Saying “excuse me”, greetings
What does a VR3 schedule mean?
Means between 1-6 targets per token.
What is an intraverbal?
Fill ins, questions of all kinds
What goes in the top drawer of the cart, middle and the bottom drawer?
o Top drawer= Known skills, token board, reinforcers
Middle- targets
o Bottom drawer= future targets
A child gets the third yes in a row when teaching, how do you put it in the book?
o Highlight all 3 YES, draw line. Write the date acquired on the skills tracking sheet.
What is one rule to remember when teaching play or ADL chains?
Use the correct SD, only use physical prompts, stay close behind them, stop inappropriate behaviors from developing.
How do you baseline a target?
Ask it three times but never reinforce it or correct it after you ask it.
What is the error correction for motor imitation
"Do this" (target) "Do this" (target) physical prompt
"Do this (target) "Do this" (target) fade physical prompts
Distractor
"Do this" (target)
Why do we use the ABLLS-R as a guideline?
Helps to make sure we look at the important skills they need (mand, tact, intraverbals, visual performance)
A child masters a target in baseline – how do you put it in the book?
o Put it right onto the skills tracking sheet all the way across with the same date and write the last cumulative number. Don’t put on probe data sheet.
How do you teach a social skill?
Probe it, give feedback, role play, give feedback, practice again
What is the error correction procedure?
Prompt, transfer, distractor, probe
Tell me what 2 of the color cards stand for
o Tact = Green
o Listener Responding = Yellow
o Intraverbal = Blue
o Motor Imitation = Red
What schedule should you always keep at the table of easy to hard tasks?
80% easy
20% hard
Why do we take data?
So we know what they are getting right. What they aren't learning and what we need to change?