Acronyms
BCBA Stands for
Board certified behavior analyst
A scientifically proven teaching method that incorporates a learner’s natural environment into teaching, maintaining, and generalizing new skills. Teaching is incorporated into the learner’s interests to maximize teaching by contriving opportunities through the learner's motivation.
What is Natural Environment Teaching (NET)
What does SLP stand for?
This often refers to repetitive movements or sounds. Typically people with autism do this to regulate themselves, cope with sensory overload or adjust to boredom (neurotypical individuals do this too!)
What is Stimming
This verbal operant is best classified as a request
What is a mand
A process in which you associate yourself with the learner’s favorite items and activities. This builds a relationship with you and your learner.
What is pairing
How many occupational therapists do we have at Blossom Novi?
4
(Katie, Amy, Jessica, Miranda)
This gender is more likely to be affected by autism than the other
What is males
When sent in Slack, indicates to not engage with a client and avoid eye contact to minimize additional attention.
What is No Reinforcement (NR)
This occurs when we give (positive) or take away (negative) something that increases the likelihood that a behavior will happen again.
What is reinforcement
How many BCBAs are vegan?
(Kirsten & Emily W)
What is Asperger's Syndrome
Teacher: "Twinkle twinkle little" Child: "star" This is an example of what verbal operant
What is an intraverbal
Behaviors are taught in this phase. Using the prompt hierarchy, a learner is taught an appropriate response for a target.
What is Intervention Phase
Who is the head of the mental health deptartment?
Liz Webster
This intensive therapy is one of the known proven ways to teach skills for autistic people
What Applied Behavior Analysis
These are the four functions of behavior
What is access to tangibles, escape, attention and automatic reinforcement (Sensory)
R+ stands for
What is positive reinforcement (can also mean correct response)
A teaching procedure implemented after an incorrect response or no response. This helps to teach the learner the correct response.
What is Error Correction
Who has been a BCBA the longest at Novi?
Jasmine (5 years)
This is the current ratio of children with autism spectrum disorder
What is 1:44 (1 in every 44 children have been identified to have ASD) - CDC
When a skill can be completed across settings, people and places, its is considered
What is Generalization