Safety in Session
This is the minimum distance you should maintain from a client during session.
3 feet
You should arrive this many minutes before session and pick up your client at this exact time.
arrive 5–10 minutes early and pick up your client at the exact session start time
The process of teaching a skill by breaking it into smaller, teachable steps is called this.
Task Analysis
This is the RBT’s primary role in providing ABA therapy.
Implementing treatment plans designed by the supervising BCBA/BCaBA and collecting data
Whose golden retriever is named Bruno?
Maddie!
If you are injured during session, list the steps you must follow (in order) after injury.
Inform your supervisor, ensure your safety/get assistance, write a staff IR, have your supervisor sign, submit to AskHR within 48 hours (CC Abby), and shred the document. ****if requires urgent care: scan code on Worker's Comp doc in EP FAQ section
Name at least 5 items you need to have ready for session to start.
session started in CR, client bin at table, DT items prepared/at table, client token/schedule/specific items, and client reinforcers located?
When a client engages in problem behavior, staff should instead prompt this type of behavior that serves the same function but is safer and more appropriate.
A functionally equivalent replacement behavior
Name the three-term contingency that explains the context of a behavioral event, describing events that occur before and after a behavior, and is used to determine the function of a behavior.
What is Antecedent → Behavior → Consequence (the ABCs of behavior)?
Who has a pet hedgehog?
Kelli!
If a client is injured during session, list the steps you must follow (in order) after injury.
Inform your supervisor, ensure client safety, de-escalate, write a client IR, and place it in the hanger outside Abby’s office
Name at least 3 appropriate things to communicate with families at drop off/pick up.
client’s sleep schedule, what they ate at home or during session, and a hamburger-method update on interfering behaviors (positive → concern → positive)
This principle states that a high-probability behavior can be used to increase a low-probability behavior.
Premack Principle
This type of reinforcement occurs when a behavior increases because something is removed following the behavior.
negative reinforcement?
This technician was born with 3 passports!
Annie
This training at Acorn provides strategies to prevent, minimize, and manage behavioral challenges safely while using the least restrictive measures
Safety-Care training (if not trained, reach out to Abby)
Name at least 3 things that are NOT appropriate to communicate with families at drop off/pick up.
your weekend, asking about their weekend in detail, negative statements, blaming parents, politics, religion, multiple relationships, or anything culturally insensitive
When reinforcement is delivered after a set number of responses, this schedule is being used.
Fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement
Name at least three of the four functions of behavior as defined in ABA.
attention, escape, access to tangibles, and automatic (sensory)?
Who's been to Cambodia twice?
Acacia!
Name the safety color codes used in EP and explain what each one means.
Code Red = Severe problem behavior (mark as important), Code Green = dignity/attention PB/do not enter area or low attention, Code Blue = Need assistance/check-in (not severe), Code Purple = Elopement (label center, lobby, or parking lot)
If you do not know an item about a client’s intervention or protocol, this is where you should always look first.
the client’s CR profile
This type of data collection records whether or not a behavior occurred during a specific interval of time, not how many times it occurred.
Interval recording (partial or whole)
Name the 5 types of differential reinforcement
DRA, DRI, DRO, DRL, DRH
Who's pregnant??? :)
Vanessa