Verbal Operants
Name Your Response
Name Your Prompt
ABA Strategies
Get To Know Your CS
100

This means to request. (Saying apple because you want an apple.)

What is a mand?

100

This is how you should respond if GM hands you his picture symbol for sand.

Wait for eye contact, say "You want sand? OK" and give him his sand (or offer a choice of 2 sands).

100
This is how you correctly prompt a mand.

What is say "What do you want?"

100

This is when you tell a leaner they can have access to a preferred activity after doing something less preferred.

What is First/Then?

100

Julia has this many children.

What is 2.

200

This means to label. (Saying apple when you see an apple.)

What is a tact?

200

This is how you should respond if GM signs "play" in the middle of a DTT program.

Ignore but take the hint that he's getting fatigued from demands (ratio strain) and needs a break soon.

200

This is how you correctly prompt a tact.

What is hold up a picture or object or point to a picture, person or object and say "What's this?" or "Who's this?"

200

This is withholding reinforcement in order to decrease a behavior.

What is extinction?

200

This is where Julia lives.

Where is Shaler?

300

This is to imitate a word or sound. (I say "ah" and you say "ah.")

What is an echoic?

300

These are GM's rules for reinforcement access.

What are he is allowed one sound toy and one sensory item as long as he asks for them?

300

This is how you correctly prompt a motor imitation target.

What is say "do this" and model the action?

300

This is adding a stimulus in order to increase a behavior.

What is reinforcement.

300

Julia has lived in this many countries.

What is 3.

400

This is responding to someone else's words with related but different words. (Example, answering "How are you?" with "Fine."

What is an intraverbal?

400

This is how you should respond if GM makes an error during motor imitation program.

What is repeat prompt then give physical assistance. (Mark incorrect if physical assistance needed)?

400

This is how you correctly prompt match to sample.

Say "put with same" or "match."

400

Why would you use response interrupt and redirect (RIR)?

What is to decrease an interfering behavior that's disruptive or dangerous?

400

This is Julia's favorite hobby.

What is cycling?

500
This is an appropriate non-vocal response based on someone else's words.

What is listener responding?

500

This is how you should respond if GM runs across the room.

If door is open or he's in a room without doors and there's access to restricted spaces, run after him and return him to where he should be as soon as possible. If it's a secure room and during a break time, make sure he isn't accessing reinforcement, determine MO, prompt communication (ideally back at session space). If occurring during demand time, reduce verbal attention and eye contact, give neutral demand and wait for him to return to session space.

500

In a task analyzed program, this is the SD for each step.

What is the completion of the previous step?

500

Give an example of how we use extinction with GM.

Discuss.
500

These are Julia's other certifications.

What are teaching certificates in English, ESL, TVI and orientation and mobility specialist.

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