Acronyms
IEP
What is Individualized Education Program?
Any instance where the individual fails to initiate or complete a task/instruction delivered by an adult within a specific time period.
What is Non-compliance or refusal?
The count of how many times a behavior occurs.
What is Frequency?
The individual engages in the behavior to gain attention from a parent, teacher, or peer.
What is Attention?
A stimulus that increases the future likelihood of a behavior occurring again.
What is reinforcement?
BIP
What is Behavior Intervention Plan?
Any instance of the individual making forceful physical contact with another person or an object, using any part of their body or an item, with sufficient force to cause a visible mark, an audible sound, or displacement of the person/object.
What is Aggression?
How long a single instance of the behavior lasts.
What is Duration?
The individual engages in the behavior to get out of, delay, or prevent participation in a non-preferred task, activity, or social interaction.
What is Escape or Avoidance?
Any event that, immediately following a behavior, decreases the future occurrence of a behavior.
What is Punishment?
SIB
What is Self-Injurious Behavior?
Any instance in which the individual moves away from the designated, authorized area (e.g., the classroom) or away from the adult without permission.
What is Elopement?
Behavior(s) occured at any point during the interval or for the entire interval.
What is Interval?
The individual engages in the behavior to obtain a desired item, activity, food, or privilege.
What is Access to Tangibles?
An event or stimulus that occurs immediately before a behavior.
What is an Antecedent?
PPT
What is Planning and Placement Team?
Any instance of the individual using excessive force against an object that results in: breaking, tearing, denting, scratching, throwing (causing damage), or otherwise permanently altering the object's original function or form.
What is Property Destruction?
Measurement of a target behavior before any treatment, intervention, or teaching procedures are implemented.
What is Baseline?
The behavior produces its own reinforcing consequence internally. The behavior is inherently pleasurable, calming, or stimulating, and does not require another person to deliver the reinforcement.
What is Automatic/Sensory?
Any event that happens immediately after a behavior, which influences whether that behavior is more or less likely to happen again.
What is a Consequence?
ABA
What is Applied Behavior Analysis?
Any instance of the individual utilizing socially unacceptable or vulgar words, phrases, or gestures that are determined by the team to be age-inappropriate, culturally offensive, or disrespectful of others.
What is Inappropriate Language?
Direct observation method used to gather information about a target behavior(s) and the environmental factors surrounding it.
What is ABC Data?
If a challenging behavior suddenly increases in frequency or intensity, or if a new challenging behavior appears, the first step is always to rule out a _______ cause before assuming a behavioral function.
What is Medical?
-Fatigue/Lack of Sleep
-Hunger/Low Blood Sugar
-Illness (Fever, Nausea)
-New medication
A technique of providing cues or assistance to help a learner perform a desired behavior, with the ultimate goal of the person eventually performing the skill independently.
What is Prompting?