Structuring Sessions
When do you start to clean and write your end of session note?
Last 10 minutes of session
Template: (Name) was (engaged/disengaged) as evidenced by (one observable behavior). (Name) worked on (List 1-3 programs) during session. Barriers to progress included: (list any barriers such as problem behaviors, environmental distractions, attention, etc). Effective reinforcers were: (List reinforcers used during session)
End of session note
What is the term for teaching a child to ask for a break instead of engaging in challenging behavior to escape a task?
Functional Communication Training
This program requires the child to imitate the sound exactly how it is presented to them
Echoics
This supervisor owns a catering business
Gaby D.
This is sent to parents when they cancel less than 24 hours before the scheduled session
Parent Enrichment Handout
The section in Skills you can record ABC data, parent questions, and non-urgent messages to your supervisor
Correspondence Notes
The discontinuing of reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior. In other words, no longer reinforcing a previously reinforced behavior.
Extinction
This program involves the child imitating an action after seeing their EI do it
Functional Pretend Play or Non-Vocal Imitation
This supervisor went to military school for two years
What do you do when there is a new challenging behavior that impedes on a child's learning?
Write ABC Data
What does DTT stand for?
Discrete Trial Training
What does ABC stand for?
Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence
This program requires the child to imitate the gestures to common nursery rhymes
Music and Movement
This supervisor has a lip tattoo (but she can't tell you what it is)
Jenna
A session your supervisor is present at. This session is meant to actively work through each program. At this session, you should conduct your session as usual, ask all your questions, and brainstorm ideas to continue to progress a child's program.
Supervisor Overlap
An EI will take this type of data when there are technical difficulties with the iPad. The data should be emailed to the supervisor at the end of session. EI will include program, exemplar, prompts used, and end of session note.
Paper Data
What is escape extinction?
Not allowing client to escape the activity presented and utilizing prompting strategies to follow through with the task
This program involves the EI turning their head while simultaneously pointing to a novel object in the environment and makeing a directive statement
Joint Attention
This supervisor is a die hard Green Bay Packer fan
Tiffany
The procedure by which a neutral stimulus (person, place, or object) becomes a conditioned reinforcer. This procedure is how an Early Interventionist establishes instructional control. This procedure can be done with a new client or at the start of sessions.
Pairing
What type of program(s) can we use a no response trial?
Echoics or any program that requires the child to vocally respond
Name the 4 Functions of Behaviors
E.A.T.S.
Escape, Attention, Access to Tangible, Sensory/Automatic Reinforcement
A child's request or demand
Manding
This supervisor has an undergrad degree in English Literature and used to write movie reviews for the college newspaper
Ivan