Scenerios
What is Nit Picking
You are doing work at the table and the client says 'I want big room'. The technician says first we need to finish our token board and then we can go to big room. What antecedent strategy was used?
What is premack principle (e.g. first/then statements)
A behavior intervention used in ABA therapy to prevent a behavior from occuring.
Response Blocking
Three pieces of information that should be communicated at drop off include
What is what the client ate, if the client used the bathroom and 1 thing they did well at
What was picking up the child.
You tell your client it's time to walk to their treatment room. They are walking to the room and turning lights off on the way to their treatment room. The technician states 'stop turning off the lights' and then client responds with 'no' and continues to turn the lights off while walking back. This is an example of..
What is a power struggle
The client has a history of swiping materials off of the work table. Instead of keeping the materials on the table they are placing the items onto a chair next to them that the client can't reach. This is called...
What is modifying the enviorment
When the client is engaging in disruptive or distracting behaviors the technician can wait out the behavior and not provide attention. What strategy is being implemented?
What is planned ignoring/'QBS 'wait' strategy
The parent requests that you work on having the client try a new food of blueberries during their session. During the session you then have the client try blueberries. Is this within your scope of practice?
What is NO (not in your scope of practice)
The clients timer goes off for the bathroom. The client drops to the floor and starts engaging in tantrum behavior. The technician says 'it's time to go potty'. What is the antecedent?
What is the timer going off.
The client is in the big room and their timer goes off to transion. The client drops to the floor and kicks off their shoes and vocally states 'no I'm not going' refusing to transion out of the big room. What is the function you should be attending to first?
What is Escape
The technician states multiple previously mastered skill aquistion targets. The client responds to 3 out of the 7 targets said. What is the technician attempting to use?
What is behavioral momentum
The parent at pick up is asking the technician for advice on how to stop studdering behaviors. What should you do?
What is redirect them to the clinician
The client is working on their programs in their treatment room. The technician moves a toy squishy from the table and places it on the other table. The client gets up and head butts the wall. The technician points to the chair. What is the beahvior?
What is getting up and headbutting the wall
A peer is playing trains with another peer. The peer asks for a turn for the blue train. The other peer says 'not right now' and the peer engages in screaming and hitting the peer that has the blue train. The technician says 'knock it off we're leaving'. What was the function of the peers behavior?
What is access to tangible.
The technician arranges different picture icons of the tasks that the client needs to complete during their session. After the task is finished they move it from the green side of the page to the red side of the page. What is the technician immplementing?
What is a visual schedule
You are doing drop off in a full lobby with other technicians, clients and parents. The client had a really rough session, how do you address the behaviors without violating HIPPA?
What is direct them to read the look what I did today sheet. OR reach out to the BCBA
Your phone alarm goes off for you to wake up. You press the snooze button. You roll over and go to back to sleep. The alam goes off again and you press snooze again. What is the function of your behavior?
what is esaping waking up
A client has a bloody nose. The blood is getting on the carpet and is on the clients hands. The client then grabs you leaving blood on your arm. What is the first step you should do in following the blood borne pathogens protocol?
What is wash or flush the area of contact
A child with severe disruptive behaviors receives frequent, scheduled praise and brief positive interactions from their technician every 5 minutes, regardless of whether they are exhibiting positive or negative behaviors during their session, with the goal of reducing attention-seeking behaviors by providing consistent access to positive reinforcement without requiring specific actions.
What is noncontingent reinforcement
The parent asks you for another clients information to set up a play day with them outside of ABA therapy. You have seen these parents talking in the lobby before in the past. You give them the clients parents name and phone number. What did you violate?
What is HIPPA
The client says 'why are they throwing the sand', the technician says 'don't worry about it'. The client says 'they are throwing sand! and touches the technicians arm. The technician tells them to mind your bussiness. What is the function of the clients behavior?
What is attention