WTF
Escape, Attention, Tangible, Sensory
What are the functions of behavior
–A socially significant behavior that has been selected for change
What is a target behavior?
How many times a behavior occurs per unit of time (e.g., per hour)
What is Rate/Frequency
Any guidance, assistance, or additional information given to an individual to help him/her follow a natural cue.
What is a prompt?
Adaptive alternatives to problem behavior that provide an immediate way to get the same need met.
What are replacement behaviors?
Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence
ABC Data
–Helps us to break down/think critically about behaviors
–Helps us to stay objective
–Helps us to get better data
Why we define target behaviors?
How many times a behavior occurs out of the total number of opportunities available for the behavior to occur
What is percent occurrence
Initial instruction or other signal to perform a behavior
What is a cue?
Asking for help
What are functional communication skills?
Many behaviors happen because the individual wants to get away from something/someone or avoid something/someone
What is escape
Objective, Clear and Concise, and Complete
What are the characteristics of good definitions?
How much time elapses between an antecedent event and a behavior
What is latency?
Involves the therapist providing the student with a spoken model of the response
What is a verbal prompt?
Accepting ―no
What are tolerance skills?
Observable events, actions or circumstances that occur before a target behavior
What is a antecedent?
Any instances of Bobby hitting, kicking or biting a teacher or peer.
What is aggression
How much time elapses between each occurrence of a behavior
What is interresponse time?
When you walk through an entire task with the child and provide a most intrusive prompt for everything. Then you gradually reduce the amount of assistance for the child.
What is most-least prompting?
Breathing exercises
What are Self-management/Coping Skills?
All behavior serves a purpose for the person who does it
What is a function?
Any instance of Bobby falling to the floor, crying, and/or kicking feet while refusing to do what is asked of him for more than 10 consecutive seconds
What is tantrum behaviors?
•To evaluate effects of intervention
•To guide decision making
•To prevent mistakes
Why do we collect data?
Systematically increasing the time between the instruction (cue) and the prompt
What is Progressive Time Delay?
Be based on the function
Be something the individual can do or can learn to do instead of what we don’t want the individual to do
Be supported by the natural environment (logical, feasible, replicable, manageable)
What a replacement behavior should be