Antecedent Strategies
Antecedent strategies are
What is strategies that help prevent or decrease challenging behaviours?
ABC stands for
What is antecedent, behaviour, consequences?
The four functions of behaviour are
What is access to tangibles, attention, escape and automatic?
Count and mand
What is waiting for the learner to calm down and prompting the appropriate language/response?
Learner is screaming for a toy
What is count and mand?
A sanitized environment is
What is having control of the environment and reinforcers?
Function of behaviour is
What is why the behaviour is happening?
Learner is screaming for bubbles in the messy room
Walk and peel
What is removing yourself or an item from the learner's reach and redirecting attention to available items?
Learner is climbing a shelf for a toy
What is guiding the learner off the shelf (guided compliance) and count and mand?
Ongoing reinforcement is important to
What is reinforce desired behaviours as soon as they occur?
Form of behaviour is
What is the way it looks?
Learner does not want to sit for snack and runs away
What is escape?
Accepting no (denied access)
What is ignoring the behaviour?
Learner is flopping during transitions, general behaviour strategies include
What is using a first/then board, making transitions fun (ex. hopping like a bunny), hold hands, have a toy as a promise, reinforce appropriate behaviour
General antecedent strategies are
What is strategies that can be implemented with any learner at any time?
Behaviour is
What is observable and measurable actions and mannerisms?
Learner starts pulling your hair and laughing at you
What is attention?
Follow through (guided compliance)
What is physically guiding with open palms or proximity prompting?
Learner is non-cooperative at table
What is pairing table, having lots of reinforcers, be enthusiastic, fade in demands, lower VR, make your table shorter?
Topography specific strategies are
What is when you are aware of potential behaviours the learner might engage in and plan accordingly?
ABC data should have 3 qualities
What is observable, measurable and objective?
Learner is hand flapping during table and screaming
What is automatic and attention/escape?
Extinction
What is removing/stopping delivering a reinforcer following a behaviour?
After relinquishing the tablet, the learner screams and hits their therapist. The therapist then removes themselves from learner's reach and moves on to a neutral activity. The ABC would include..
What is function is access to tangibles, antecedent is relinquishing the tablet, behaviour is screaming and hitting therapist, consequence is block and redirect, time of event, duration, intensity?