Natural Environment Training
Conducting lessons in the "natural" environment
What is Natural Environment Training?
What is Total Task Presentation?
FR1
FCT
What is Functional Communication Training?
Presenting a client with multiple items to increase his/her motivation to learn before conducting a lesson
What is a preference assessment?
The 3 C's to maximize learning opportunities
What is Capturing, Contriving, and Combining?
BT presents each step following the next beginning with the 1st step
What is Forward Chaining?
Adding a stimulus to increase the likelihood of the behavior occurring
What is Positive Reinforcement?
Functional Communication Training
What is an Antecedent Modification?
The key to having a successful session
What is Rapport Building?
Reinforcers that have more meaning due to relevance to the task
What are functional reinforcers?
BT begins teaching the last step while all other steps are prompted
What is Backwards Chaining?
Reduction or removal of a stimulus in order to increase the likelihood of the behavior occurring
What is Negative Reinforcement?
Teaching Functional Communication using a voice programmed device
What is Augmentative/Alternative Communication?
Being punctual, professional, and positive
What are ways to build rapport?
A natural consequence that both reinforces a patient's attempt and prompts/shapes the response to a desired one
What is natural reinforcement?
A teaching process that breaks down complex activities into a series of simple steps that patients can learn more easily
What is Task Analysis?
Conditioned reinforcers, acquire them across experiences and learning
What are Secondary Reinforcers?
Modeling, Gestures, Partial/Full Echoic
What are methods to teach functional communication?
Your client listens and cooperates because there is an established relationship, engagement is higher.
What is Instructional Control?
Prompting strategy/hierarchy used in NET
What is least-to-most prompting?
A sequence of individual behaviors that occur in a specific order
What is a behavior chain?
Unconditioned reinforcers, untaught. Naturally reinforcing, biologically necessary for survival
What is Primary Reinforcement?
Teaching Functional Communication using icons
What are PECS?
Not forcing the client to engage, narrate and praise the client, and engage in parallel play
What is Adjusting the Pairing Process?