Components for Writing BO's Flashcards
Skill
The reason for the treatment, area of development, or function the treatment will change.
Behavior
The overt behavior the client will perform
Conditions
The cues, prompts, or models that will be provided to facilitate/elicit the target behavior, the conditions under which you will observe and measure the client.
Criterion
The level or degree of accuracy or effectiveness, frequency the target behavior is desired at.
Example of skill
“To increase intelligibility”
“To increase expressive language skills”
Example of behavior
“do statement”
Through reading, writing, speaking, etc.
Example of Conditions
These are the cues and models.
Visual/verbal cues
Independently
Etc
Example of criterion
The level of effectiveness
“No less than 4 errors in 15 minute intervals”
Example of valid BO for our clinic
“To increase overall speech intelligibility across settings the client will produce /s/ in the initial, medial, and final positions of words in sentences with direct model at 90% accuracy.
