ABC policies
Which of the following articles of clothing is not in the ABC policy:
1) Hats
2) Leggings
3) Sweat pants
4) Jeans
5) Scrub tops
6) Crocs
Hats
Sweat pants
Scrub tops
Crocs
What is the pay increase for volunteering for in home therapy?
Extra $2 per hour/ drive time
What is the most important concept for a technician to learn day one of training?
Pairing with patients
What is the difference between an antecedent intervention and a replacement behavior?
Antecedent intervention: intervention in place in the BIP to prevent the target behavior from occurring
Replacement behavior: program that is taught to the patient that is reinforced rather than the target behavior
What should be the homepage of every therapist's tablet?
Their assigned IPAD #
What is the call-out policy when you are sick?
Email: prospernorthprestoncallouts@actionbehavior.com
Before 7am
If a technician has SDLS that is split into 2 appointments, whom claims the placeholder and converts the note?
The last person of the session will convert the SDLS note
List at least 5 things that are important to complete on Admin
1) Patient Dishes
2) Center clean-up
3) Checking admin chats for breaks/ and favors
4) Stimuli making from BCBA binders
5) Checking inventory (assigned by CAA)
6) Stacking/ unstacking chairs
7) Assisting in social group activities
8) Assisting with transitions
9) Front Desk help (when asked)
10) Restocking rooms for items (e.g., gloves, tissues)
List 5 antecedent interventions
Priming, use of visual stimuli, timers, premack principle (first/ then), non-contingent reinforcement, sensory diet, environmental arrangements, modeling functional play
How would you describe DTT vs NET to a new technician?
DTT- therapist led intervention
NET- child led intervention
When is deadline to complete session notes?
What occurs if session notes are not complete within this time frame?
Session notes should be documented the last 7 minutes of your session
Session notes are required to be completed 24 hours after session
If incomplete, you are placed in a chat regarding late arrivals
If placed in this chat several instances, this can impact your elevate opportunity
What are the core vaules of ABC?
Caring, Team, Fun, Learning, and Excellence
Patient summary
or Assent and preferences in daily session
List at 3 types of preference assessments
Paired Choice
Multiple stimuli with replacement
Multiple stimuli without replacement
Free operant
Single Stimuli preference assessment
When is your supervision log due to your BCBA?
How should you provide it to your BCBA?
On the 10th of every following month
Printed and signed on your BCBA's desk; calculated with supervision hours with number of billable hours documented to determine 5%
When should you change the time on your placeholder?
Patient is more than 7 minutes late/ time is past 7 minutes
Nomination for ABC teammates (RBT, CAAs, BCBAs, OMs, etc) to earn a reinbursement for a paid vacation (up to $2,000)
If a target is in baseline on Central Reach.. how should you take data?
Therapist can cold probe this target and graph first attempt (without prompts) or continue to cold probe and then graph
Therapist should not teach this target and then graph baseline
How would you describe positive and negative reinforcement to a new technician?
Positive a stimulus is added (e.g., giving a token to a patient for correct response)
Negative: a stimulus is taken away (after patient provides functional communication, the patient leaves the area/ the activity is terminated)
How would you explain schedule changes to a new technician?
Patient coverage comes first
Schedule changes happen throughout the day
When the regional scheduler passes the schedule to the BCBAs, more edits can occur.
What is the expectation/ timeline for BTs to pass their RBT exam?
21 days
30 days- verbal warning
60 days- written warning
90 days- termination
What is the encore bonus?
Potential bonus for RBTs that have been employed at ABC for 1+ year at your anniversary
30 trials per hour (this counts behavior data)
What are the main types of differential reinforcement?
Provide an example of each
DRO- other behavior
DRI- incompatible behavior
DRA- alternative behavior
What are the steps of behavior skills training?
1) Instruction
2) Modeling
3) Rehearsal
4) Feedback