Preparing for Intervention
Classroom Setting
NI Vocabulary
Using NI
Monitoring NI
100

Any help provided that will assist the learner in using specific skills. ______ can be verbal, gestural, or physical. You have a copy of this hierarchy in your classroom.

What is a Prompt?

100

The person who is mainly responsible for the students' IEP also known as the Case Manager.

Who is the Classroom Teacher?

100

Occur naturally as a result of using the target behavior or skill.

What is Natural Reinforcer?

100

If you are targeting appropriate play by modeling driving toy cars for a learner who repeatedly spins the wheels on cars during playtime in a preschool classroom, be sure that the cars are visible and ready to be played with. True or False?

True or What is True?

100

The IEP team member who keeps track of trials, outcomes, and factors affecting NI.

Who is a Teacher or a Paraeducator?

200

The behavior or skill that is the focus of the intervention. Behavior may need to be increased or decreased.

What is a Target Behavior?

200

A type of visual support that includes posting a class schedule in a central location available for all students.

What is a Classroom Schedule?

200

Assessment to determine potential reinforcers by presenting different materials and taking data on frequency and duration of the student's engagement on each material to see which they prefer the most.

What is Preference Assessment?

200

Examples are loud voices, music playing, high interest items within sight, technology on, unnecessary items within the work environment.

What are distractions?

200

Naturalistic Intervention works for all learners all the time for all skill sets. True or False.

False or What is False?

300

_____ _____ is a challenging behavior that interferes with the learner’s ability to learn

What is Interfering Behavior?

300

To set up the environment and to engage a learner if he/she does not seem interested in playing with you or seems to be bored during an activity.

What is using novel materials and changing things up in familiar routines and activities?

300

When a response is followed by the presentation of a stimuli and as a result, there is an increase in the future frequency of that behavior.

What is Positive Reinforcement?

300

Arranging the layout of the classroom systematically, labeling items, making sure student materials are developmentally appropriate, there are clear expectations for staff and students.

What is structure or structured environment?

300

The people responsible for determining the effectiveness of the use of Naturalistic Interventions.

What is the Whole IEP Team?

400

Demonstrating the proper way to put toothpaste on a toothbrush to teach the student how to put toothpaste on their own toothbrush while in the restroom is called ________

What is Modeling?

400

Examples are snack time, lunch time, circle time, recess, play time, academics or any activity in which the learner or student engages in his or her classroom on a regular basis.

What is routines and activities?

400

Information gathered from multiple sources to better understand the target behavior, before using an intervention or practice

What is Baseline?

400

Offering the learner with high-interest items, imitating what the learner is saying or doing, commenting on what the learner is saying or doing, making yourself animated.

What is Engaging the Learner?

400

_____ _____ is a broad category of behavioral interventions that are implemented during everyday routines and activities in the learner’s classroom or home environment (i.e. in the learner’s natural environment).

What is Naturalistic Interventions?

500

Getting down on the same level with the learner and play with what the player is playing with to help the learner remain engaged in the activity.

What is following the lead of the learner/student?

500

Teaching opportunities are targeted and contrived throughout the student’s natural daily activities, environment and routines.

What is Naturalistic Intervention?

500

Includes the parents, other primary caregivers, IEP/IFSP team members, teachers, therapists, early intervention providers, and other professionals involved in providing services for the learner with disabilities.

Who are Team Members?

500

The two Evidence Based Practice strategies that are most often used as part of Naturalistic Interventions.

What are Modeling and Prompting?

500

Target behavior, Date and Time of NI, Who is going to implement NI, Routine or activity during which NI occurred, Specific or additional strategies used, The result/outcome.

What is Components in Data Collection used for NI?