Acronyms
What is PECS?
Picture Exchange Communication System
A tool we use to take quick requesting data.
Clickers
This type of assessment can help identify what items a learner might be motivated to request for during session.
Preference assessment
The difference between saying "coffee" because you want the coffee and saying "coffee" because you see coffee.
Motivation
What is NET?
Natural Environment Teaching
This is what you call the type of data you take throughout session
Frequency data
An environmental manipulation to contrive more requests in the context of one activity
Keep items in your possession
Saying something like "What can you say?" serves as this.
Leading/unintentional prompt
What is FCT?
Functional communication training
The calculation for requesting rate.
Frequency over time (hours)
The type of schedule of reinforcement that most requesting programs have
FR1 or continuous
It is important to check this part of the program to know how to support the learner to make requests
Prompting hierarchy
What is AAC?
Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This is the type of data that you graph at the end of your session
Rate
Giving more of an item or a longer time with an activity when a learner requests independently
Modulating reinforcement
After prompting a request for a specific item, I should try prompting a request for this soon after.
The same item