What is a primary way to built Rapport?
Conduct preference assessments frequently throughout the session
Natural Environment Training (NET)
A teaching procedure that is under the scope of ABA that can be used to teach in a
learners natural environment
NET Prompting Strategies
Direct
Indirect
4 Main Characteristics of NET Strategies
Focus on learner's MO
Functional relationship between task and reinforcer
Taught in child's environment in playful manner
Focus on reinforcing any appropriate attempts to respond
Generalization
Behavior change that occurs within untrained situations or conditions
Maintenance
Continued performance of a response after it was first learned
3 Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Must impact individuals ability to function
Must not be better explained by another diagnosis
Indicating levels of severity, language, or intellectual impairment
What is the Cor Principle of ABA?
Desirable consequences will increase behavior
Undesirable consequences will decrease behavior
What is ABA?
A application of the "Principles of Behavior" to issues that are socially important, in
order to produce practical change.
3 Principles of Behavior
Extinction
Generalization
Reinforcement
What is Discrete Trial Teaching (DTT)?
A structural behavioral teaching method consisting of clear and direct presentation of
learning trials to promote skill and acquisition
What is a Discriminative Stimulus (SD)?
A stimulus or instruction presented to an individual that must be discriminated from
other instruction
What is a Response?
A particular instance of a behavior
What is a Consequence?
When a reinforcement or other outcomes is delivered as a result of a behavior
4 Types of Reinforcement
Continuous
Intermittent