Key Characteristics
What is NET ?
Utilizing existing SD's /learning opportunities that occur outside of the BT's mediation or planning.
What is capturing learning opportunities?
What is combining learning opportunities?
Find what the learner enjoys, wants to do, wants to talk about and connect it to treatment targets.
What is finding motivation for NET lessons?
The tech spent 15 minutes planning an art activity to run 4 lessons (prepositions, attributes, basic mands and sharing). They start the art project when a peer comes in and says, "Do you want to play marble run with me?" Your client jumps up saying, "Yes!" They go to play marble run instead. The tech checks to see if the same lessons can still be run and adjust as needed.
What is being flexible?
The activity the client is engaged in, is part of the lesson, but also highly preferred by the learner. It motivates the learner to continue engaging in their current behavior.
What is NET reinforcement?
The technician manipulates the environment or situation to create a learning opportunity for the learner.
What is contriving opportunities?
What is important about combining learning opportunities?
When a learner only likes a few play activities or items, the tech brings in other items to the play such as, if a learner only likes trains, the tech builds a town around the tracks and puts in farm animals.
What is expanding upon the clients interest?
Slide 21 of 25.
Review the data. Use most-to-least prompting, begin with a textual or indirect verbal prompt, fade slowly from there since progress has been inconsistent.
What is planning out a prompt hierarchy?
An activity that has naturally presented it self vs an activity the tech has set up to occur without the clients knowledge to "imitate" real life events.
What is captured and contrived?
They happen quickly - you might not always have time to prompt, repetition can be difficult if you need to follow up or extra practice is needed, requires familiarity with the learner, their program and being able to predict events occurring in the environment.
What are the challenges for capturing opportunities?
Requires planning to be effective, requires additional time to review past data and what the learner struggled with during the last session, data collection can be more difficult because multiple lessons are occurring at one time and the learner may not be motivated by what the tech has planned.
What are the challenges for combining learning opportunities?
Act confused, leading Q's and statements, rephrasing, choices, experiential, model-observation, role play, visual textual, rule governed bx, non-vocal.
What are prompts within NET?
Learner and tech are playing trains. They have houses and animals up all around the track. The tech, "I think the tree should go on top of the tracks."
Learner and tech are playing trains. They have houses and animals up all around the track. The tech, "Put the tree on top of the track. Great" Now put the train on top of the bridge"
What is NET and DTT?
What is natural "relaxed" language?
It requires advanced planning, being familiar with the learner, and requires creativity to make the situation motivating and appear natural to the learner.
What are the challenges to contriving opportunities?
Using intrinsic motivation/MO
Using functional reinforcement
Planning and building focused set
Prompting and fading systematically
Contriving ample learning opportunities
Dealing with interruptions/curveballs
What are ways to maximize the effective implementation of NET?
It is important to transition away from contrived reinforcers to more functional reinforcers that closely mirror the reinforcement delivered in everyday life.
What is functional reinforcement?
Tech says, "I'm not sure?" with raised shoulders
Tech says, "Ooh I like the car pass it here please." "The red car with doors open. I want that one."
Tech says, "Here let me show you how it works."
What are the 6 key characteristics of NET?
Learner is motivated and reinforced by the activity they are engaged in, SD's occur naturally, challenging behaviors are often less, and generalization occurs often. At the same time, Acquisition of skills can take longer, repeated opportunities do not occur easily and may require BT mediation, prompting may be inconsistent, variability of responses depends on the situation and data can be a challenge to take.
What are the benefits and the challenges to NET teaching?
Watch the video in the slide show and find at least 4 lessons being run.
What are the lessons you observed?
Sometimes we need to do and learn things we aren't motivated by. For example, the tech in the video used the toy and the party as being reinforcement for teaching the skills of learning to wipe her bottom.
What is manipulating the MO?
Watch prompting video.
Name at least 3 prompting strategies used.