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TESOL Questions and Answers Already Passed pivotal behavior A behavior that, when learned, produces corresponding modifications or covariation in other untrained behaviors. Pivotal Response Training (PRT) Targets increasing social-communicative repertoires and the child's responsiveness to the environment. Focuses not only on language, but also on motivation, self-regulation, responding to multiple cues, and self-initiation of social interactions functional communication training An antecedent intervention in which an appropriate communicative behavior is taught as a replacement behavior for problem behavior usually evoked by an establishing operation (EO). TEACCH A well research program used with individuals with ASD. The program emphasizes language development and uses a variety of visual cues to facilitate language development. Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) Special education term used to describe the written plan used to address problem behavior that includes positive behavioral interventions, strategies and support. May include program modifications and supplementary aids and services. functions of behavior What the client is accessing or escaping by engaging in the problem behavior Access, attention, escape, automatic time-out A disciplinary technique in which a child is separated from other people for a specified time. Should only be used if the function of the problem behavior is attention (peer, adult). Challenging behaviors Destructive and/or disruptive such as: hitting, screaming, biting, and swearing. positive programming longitudinal, instructional program designed to give the learner greater skills and competencies for the purpose of controlling or eliminating problem behavior in order to facilitate and enhance social integration. In this sense it is based on a functional analysis of the preventing problem and involves the systematic manipulation of stimulus conditions, consequences, instructional stimuli and other variables in an effort to establish the new, more adaptive behavioral repertoire. positive behavior support plan Typical plans involve an objective for the intervention, prevention strategies, replacement behaviors, reinforcers, attention to what should not be reinforced, and ways to monitor children's progress delivering consequences immediacy operational definition a statement of the procedures used to define research variables. The procedures included in definitions should be repeatable by anyone or at least by peers. onset and offset behavior Behavior must have a defined beginning and end added to the definition. Doing so increases the strength of your inter