What's that Intervention?
A strategy in which isolated responses are taught to proficiency. A discriminative stimulus is presented, a prompt may be provided, and when a response occurs, either reinforcement or error correction is provided.
Discrete Trial Teaching
A consequence to a behavior increases or maintains the future probability of that response.
Reinforcement
Johnny raises his hand and asks a question.
Mand
Nick initiates vocally to say, "broken" when he realizes his Mom's car is missing from the driveway. The instructor uses a model prompt, "Mom isn't home".
Incidental teaching
Nick completes 15 push-ups in 5 minutes. What type of measure is this?
Rate
A list of all component steps that make up a complex task or skill.
Task analysis
The process of systematically reducing or removing prompts so that the response comes under the control of the natural stimulus.
Prompt Fading
Nora tells her instructor, "that's a big bubble!"
Tact
Johnny is reaching and whining for a cookie. His mother models, "cookie" which he imitates and then is given the cookie. What procedure is this?
Functional Communication Training / DRA
Carol typically plays with peers for about 10 minutes. What measure?
Duration
Differentially reinforcing successive approximations of a target behavior
Shaping
No longer delivering a reinforcer for a previously reinforced response
Extinction
You ask your learner a question and they repeat the question back.
Echoic
Jamie can’t write any letters but can trace them with a finger. The teacher starts by having Jamie trace the letters of their name using a dotted-line template. Once Jamie can trace letters, the teacher encourages Jamie to trace letters without the template, using lined paper instead.
Shaping
A shape sorter activity is placed in front of the student and he is asked to complete it. It takes 25-seconds for him to start picking up blocks. What measure?
Latency
Takes advantage of naturally occurring opportunities that are motivating to the student. For example, when the learner initiates for something, the instructor prompts an elaboration, and after the learner elaborates, the instructor provides the item/activity the learner initiated for.
Incidental Teaching
A cue that signals the availability of reinforcement.
Discriminative stimulus (SD)
You ask your learner what's their favorite food and they answer, "pizza".
Intraverbal
Liam is learning animal names. The teacher shows a picture of a dog and says, “This is a dog" and Liam imitates immediately. The teacher does not wait 1-second to ensure he gets it correct. Over opportunities, the instructor fades to a partial verbal prompt, and then fades prompts out as the learner becomes successful. It is never allowed for the child to make several mistakes in a row.
Errorless teaching
In a 5-minute period, a teacher tracks whether Sam is engaging in verbal protesting. If Sam engaged in a verbal protest at any point within the 5-minute period, it's marked as "Yes"; otherwise, it's marked as "No." What measure?
Partial interval recording
A procedure in which the last step in a task analysis is taught first, then the second to last, then the third to last, until at the first step (i.e., the task analysis is taught in reverse)
Backward chaining
A consequence to a behavior decreases the probability of that response in the future.
You start to sing "the wheels on the bus" and your client sings, "round and round"
Intraverbal
Johnny is asked to get his shoes. The instructor plans to wait 10-seconds before prompting. If he does not begin to get up within 10-seconds, she gestures to the shoe area. What strategy is being used?
Time delay (prompt fading)
A teacher observes John's behavior at the end of each 5-minute interval to see if he is on-task. If Sam is on task at that specific moment, it’s recorded as "Yes"; if not, it’s recorded as "No." What measure?
Momentary time sample