ABA Terms
Functions of behavior
What is escape, tangibles, attention, sensory
These are the days we do not have to take out the trash
What is....Tuesday and Friday
What do you do when there's no instructional note for a client program?
What is...teams BCBA
The day that we should have FAC orders in to Jbear by if we want to order food with dojo points.
What is....the Thursday before payday.
The ideal number of trials to run per program
What is 3-5 trials (but more is great too!)
This is used to prevent a behavior from happening before it happens
What is antecedent interventions/manipulations
This should be done after completing and submitting an incident report.
What is.... send a teams to update the Ocala Team chat regarding the RI that was submitted and who it was for.
If a client engages in a new behavior, what should you do?
what is...teams/email BCBA to begin collecting ABC data. As well teams group chat if it's a common occurrence to others.
The day Bliss sends out the weekly center updates email
What is FRIDAYS
Questions asked to caregivers at drop-off in lobby at beginning of session
Did the client sleep well? Did client eat this morning? (*bonus* questions regarding bathroom eliminations)
When the client repeats what we say to them in response to us
What is echolalia
What needs to be done every Monday?
Maintenance monday sessions!
The following information can be found where? Target behavior definitions, hypothesized functions of behavior, client goals, caregiver goals, consequence strategies, prevention strategies
What is the BIP (behavior intervention plan)
This is where we should not stack the chairs in the cafeteria.....
What is the wall. Please stack chairs onto the lagoon cabinet to keep the paint on the wall intact.
Positive reinforcement
What are the different types of continuous and discontinuous measurements?
What is... (Continous measurements) Rate/Frequency, Duration, Latency, and interresponse time. (Discontinuous measurements) Momentary time sampling and partial and whole-interval recording.
The primary
How often should you repeat each step for the different levels of prompting?
what is...only once and move on to the next step.
The number of minutes we get prior to first session of the day to put in minute tracker.
What is.....5 minutes. The company pays for RBTs to arrive 5 minutes prior to their first session and last session for session note. 5 minutes only.
Melanie takes away Elizabeth's body sock and Elizabeth starts crying and goes under the table in the corner.
What is the function of this behavior?
Access to tangible and sensory
This is the definition of stereotypy (also know as STIMMING)
*bonus* what are some examples of stimming
What is frequent repetition of the same, typically purposeless movement, gesture, posture, or vocal sounds or utterances
*visual stereotypy, vocal stereotypy, hand flapping, toe walking
This is the time each day where client swaps/shift drops have to be in by, to be approved by leadership
OH NO, you forgot to submit Audrey's rate of PD and you already graphed the session! How will you submit this data?
what is... send email to client BCBA
BONUS: a measure of how often a behavior occurs over an amount of time and submitting anything after once the session is graphed will skew the data points.
These are the two key phrases heard during a lockdown.
Banana split (when the lockdown first occurs) & the ice cream has melted (when the coast is clear)
Every time Erick's mom starts to cook dinner and tells Erick to play with his camera, Erick starts climbing furniture, head banging, and spitting.
This is the function of his behavior....
What is.... attention