Antecedent Interventions
This intervention provides a visual representation of the order of activities or tasks throughout the day to increase predictability and reduce problem behavior.
What is a Visual Schedule?
Building rapport and ensuring the client sees you as a source of reinforcement is most commonly referred to as this ABA practice.
What is Pairing?
This teaching process reinforces closer and closer approximations toward a target skill.
What is Shaping?
This safety procedure involves using an open palm to block dangerous or unsafe behaviors without providing excessive attention.
What is Open Hand Blocking (also accept “Barbie Hands”)?
This function occurs when behavior results in gaining interaction, conversation, or acknowledgment from others.
What is Attention?
This strategy involves arranging the environment ahead of time to decrease the likelihood of challenging behavior occurring.
What is Environmental Modification?
This engagement strategy involves staying close enough to the learner to deliver prompts, reinforcement, and support when needed, while maintaining active supervision.
What is Within Arm's Reach of the Patient?
This intervention teaches an appropriate communication response that serves the same function as a problem behavior.
What is Functional Communication Training (FCT)?
This strategy involves prompting or guiding a learner toward a more appropriate behavior, activity, or response following challenging behavior.
What is Redirection?
This function occurs when an individual engages in behavior to obtain access to a preferred item or activity.
What is Tangible?
This communication strategy teaches clients to request desired items, activities, or assistance.
What is Manding?
Before expecting participation, an RBT should ensure they know and consistently use this individualized way the learner expresses wants, needs, and responses.
What is the Patient's Communication Method (AAC Device/PECs book)?
Teaching a child to request "juice" and then later requesting it at home, school, and the grocery store demonstrates this concept.
What is Generalization?
Saying, "I know you're frustrated that playtime is over," before redirecting a client is an example of this skill.
What is Empathy?
The therapist asks, "What color is the sky?" and the learner responds, "Blue."
What is an Intraverbal?
This antecedent intervention involves presenting several easy, likely-to-be-followed instructions before a more difficult demand.
What is a High Probability Request Sequence?
This skill occurs when a learner demonstrates attention to a speaker by orienting toward them, responding, or showing active listening behaviors.
What is Verbal Attending?
This ABA principle involves providing a consequence that increases the future likelihood of a desired behavior occurring again.
What is Reinforcement?
This individualized document outlines target behaviors, prevention strategies, teaching procedures, and reactive procedures that staff should follow consistently.
What is a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP)?
This intervention reinforces a more appropriate replacement behavior while withholding reinforcement for the challenging behavior.
What is DRA (Differential Reinforcement of Alternative Behavior)?