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Creating a Meaningful Skill Acquisition Program in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)

Skill acquisition programs play a pivotal role in ABA. These programs focus on teaching essential skills that enhance the learner’s overall development, reduce challenging behavior and promote their independence in various areas of life. Through systematic and evidence-based approaches, skill acquisition programs help learners acquire new skills, overcome challenges, and reach their full potential.

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The 4 Pillars of BCBA Trainee Supervision: Independent Fieldwork that Changes Lives

The 4 pillars of BCBA trainee supervision provide a framework for your supervision experience to ensure the highest quality supervision possible. As a BCBA, you routinely break complex tasks into simpler ones. The 4 pillars do the same with supervision. The 4 pillars are: Realize your role as a leader, Impart your knowledge and experience, Sharpen to bring existing skills to a new level, Empower your trainees to become the future leaders of ABA.

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Antecedent Interventions: Complete Guide

Collecting ABC data helps us understand behavior in context. Reinforcement and other consequence interventions are a cornerstone of ABA (see Understanding Consequence Interventions: Punishment vs Reinforcement). Here we dive a little deeper into using the first part of the 3 term contingency – Antecedent interventions. Begin by collecting ABC data to help you identify some frequent

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Using Behavioral Momentum as an Antecedent Strategy

Children with autism often exhibit challenging behavior, including refusal. Behavioral momentum allows you to turn potentially negative interactions with your learner into positive ones. By eliciting a series of positive responses from your learner you are essentially warming him up and preparing him to respond positively to requests that follow. Once he completes a series

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Compliance Training: Teach Cooperation While Preserving Individual Rights

Before beginning Compliance Training, be very clear about why you want to teach compliance.  Ensure that you are using this strategy for the child’s benefit, not your own.  While no one should be expected to blindly comply with authority, there are many reasons why both children and adults need to be comfortable following directions from others.

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