Unit 3 Instructors Notes Flashcards
Outline (Aaron)
- Typical children
- Intervention (Mand Training)
- Beyond Mands
- Teaching IV
Important Milestones
-End 7 Months: Responds to Name, No; Express joy & displeasure
End 1 yr-Imitates play & gestures, Orients to named item , cries wen caregiver leaves
-End 2 yrs: Imitates older children, follow simple instructions, Use 2-4 word sentences
-End 3 yrs: Imaginative play; Peer IM, 2-3 part commands, Use pronouns; preps
-End 4 yrs: Basic rules of grammar, can tell stories, Uses 5-6 word sentences
-End 5 yrs: Tells Longer Stories, Uses future tense, counting colors
Basic rules of grammar are typically demonstrated around what age?
a) 2 years
b) 3 years
c) 4 years
d) 5 years
c) 4 years
The typical child at 7 months can do which of the following?
a) Orient when name is called
b) Vocally express joy
c) Point to a named object
d) All of the above
e) A and B only
e) A and B only
Intervention Program
Assess first -Level Design Individualized Program -Strengths -Weaknesses -Balance!
Intervention Program
Level 1 focus? -MANDS! And what type? -Specific -Strong MO -Compete with Problem Behavior
Do Not Start With
General words: -More, Please, Help, Eat, Play Removing aversives: -All done, no, break, go play Hard to deliver/remove: -Outside, Bike ride, playground
Client Profile: Level 1, no mands, no tacts, some echoics and imitation. Problem behavior maintained by escape from task demand and access to favorite snacks (grapes). What is the most appropriate first target?
a) Tacting Grapes
b) Mands for “Snacks”
c) Mands for “Grapes”
d) Mands for “Break
c) Mands for “Grapes”
If a “Level 1 learner” is behind in listener discriminations, but near age level in Mands and Tacts, we should:
a) Continue to push ahead in Mands
b) Target Listener Discriminations using the Mands and Tacts as appropriate
c) Begin targeting Intraverbals
d) Focus on Echoics as a way to strengthen all operants
b) Target Listener Discriminations using the Mands and Tacts as appropriate
Forms
- Speech, Signs, PECs, Written, AAC devices
- Initially, Speech is primary goal
Establishing the Mand
- Capture or Contrive MO
- Item present
- PromptsMAND
- Praise
- Specific reinforcer
What best describes the transfer of stimulus control procedure?
a) Only useful in teaching the Mand
b) Helpful in using one established operant to teach another
c) Only effective in contrived environments
d) Steps may occur out of sequence depending on the individual’s learning style
b) Helpful in using one established operant to teach another
You are early in teaching first Mands. At the start of the trial you establish the MO, show the item, provide verbal and echoic prompts. The learner responds correctly. What’s next?
a) Praise and repeat the full sequence
b) Praise, repeat sequence but fade sight of item
c) Deliver praise and repeat the sequence with faded prompts
d) Deliver praise and the reinforcer
e) C or D depending on the learner
e) C or D depending on the learner
Generalization
Generalization:
Methods to increase generalization: -Different settings -Different people -Different materials/stimuli -Different carrier phrases Combinations
Expanding
After acquiring 1-2 unprompted mand-tacts: -Select more targets Not yet concerned with: -Carrier phrases -Fading sight of item
We have established mands for “car” and “ball” while in therapy room using 4 different items of each. What would we likely target next?
a) Increase length, “I want ball/car”
b) Select next highly preferred activity
c) Teach polite refusal, “No”
d) Ensure mands occur in other settings
d) Ensure mands occur in other settings
Format
- Discrete trials
- Short sessions (< 15 mins)
- Varied locations
- Mixed target operants
- Focus first on Mand and Tact
Tact
-Child can demonstrate Mands and Echoics/imitation
-Use 3D everyday items
-Ok to use reinforcing items?
YES!
-Use words already in repertoire
-Make a list
When tracking progress, its ok if the first trial is incorrect as long as the learner is above 80% overall for the day
a) True
b) False
b) False
VP and MTS
Can establish more complex skills such as: LRFFC IV categorization Advanced LR Scanning larger arrays
Can help Identify “learner problems”
Conditional Discrimination
-One stimulus alters the evocative effect of another stimulus
Intraverbals
Multiple targets around one item or relationship:
You kick a ___
What can you do with a ball?
What can you bounce?
Items must be known as Tacts, LDs
Caregiver Training
- How to find and use reinforcers
- Pairing
- Stimulus Control
- Prompting and Fading
- Prompt hierarchies
- Differential reinforcement
- Generalization
Caregiver Training
- Teaching Mands
- Teaching Imitation
- Teaching Tacts, etc.
- Take data on
- Teaching procedures
- Child performance