Acronyms
This is the person that works directly with the client to teach skills and implement behavior interventions.
What is a BT
Anything that an organism says or does, including observable and non-observable events.
What is behavior
This is what happens when you add something preferred to make the behavior more likely to occur.
What is Positive Reinforcement
This strategy involves differential reinforcement of successive approximations to a target behavior.
What is shaping
This is called when a request for an item is made.
What is a mand
This is a therapeutic approach widely used to help people with autism develop/become more independent in life skills and improve behavior.
What is ABA
This training method occurs at a table, that teaches individual targets presented one at a time, repeatedly, and scored through data collection
DTT/DTI- Discrete Trial Teaching/ Instruction
This is what happens when you remove something that is not preferred to make the behavior more likely to occur.
What is Negative Reinforcement
This strategy involves finding a small, easy reinforcer (i.e. a sticker or a star) that can be exchanged for a more desirable reinforcer when a specific amount of small ones are collected.
What is a token economy
This is one example of this verbal operant:
Teacher says, “head, shoulders, knees and …”
Child, immediately finishes the sentence with “toes”
What is an intraverbal behavior
This is the title of your supervisor, who is an expert in the field of ABA and trained to develop treatment plans for our clients.
What is a BCBA
This is the process of breaking an activity or skill with multiple steps into teachable single targets in a specific order to complete the chain.
What is task analysis
When you remove something preferred it makes the behavior less likely to occur.
What is Negative Punishment
This is what is called when a behavior no longer exists.
What is extinct behavior
This strategy can be given freely or used more frequently to help reduce maladaptive behavior. This can also assist in building a rapport with your client.
What is Noncontingent reinforcement
Daily double
These are two important documents written by your BCBA: The first outlines the behaviors and hypothesized functions through an assessment. The second contains proactive and reactive strategies to treat the behaviors and programs to teach skills that is based on the results of the first one.
What are the FBA & BSP
This training method occurs in the moment, right away, where the client is to teach or reinforce different skills with the client.
What is Natural Environment Training
This is what happens when you add something non-preferred to make the behavior less likely to occur.
What is positive punishment
This strategy involves pointing, hinting, or gently orienting the client towards the correct response.
What is prompting
These are two of the four functions of behavior
What is access to tangibles, escape, attention and automatic reinforcement
This is the three-term contingency, or a type of data you collect about what happens before the behavior, the behavior itself, and what happens after the behavior.
What is ABC data
Daily Double:
These are two of the four verbal operants, which form the foundation of language in the field of ABA.,
What is mand, tact, intraverbal or echoic
This type of teaching involves selectively reinforcing desired behaviors while withholding reinforcement of undesirable behaviors.
What is differential reinforcement
These are desirable skills that are taught and reinforced so the client does more of that instead of the inappropriate behavior
What are Replacement Behaviors
This is one of three ways for a behavior to be considered generalized.
What is different people, different settings and different materials