Unit 3 Teaching Social Skills & Advanced Learners: Placement, IEP, and Considerations Flashcards
Social skills
Can be difficult to teach
Verbally-governed behaviors
Situational specific
Vary according to the social environment
2 categories: social nonverbal bx and Social vb bx
Must engage in multiple bx and make fine discriminations
Social skills are hard to teach because they
Involve verbally-governed bx
Are situational specific
Vary according to the social environment
Dr. Tu recommends asking this question before teaching social skills
What equips the learner with strategies that work best in specific social settings?
Social verbal bx
Controlled by the immediate verbal community
Social nonverbal behavior
Are often controlled by social rules that may not be verbally mediated by the verbal community
Attending and interacting skills
Taught by manding, imitation and play skills
Social skills groups to target
Appropriate attention seeking
Reciprocation
Conversational skills
Critical components of social skills group
1-2 peer models
1 group leader
1:1 staff ratio at the beginning
Groups conducted at least 1-2 times per week
Use natural stimuli and consequences when teaching:
Eye contact
Initiation
Reciprocation
Correspondence training
Only reinforced when doing and saying are both observed.
Promotes generalization
Do say and say do
Rosenberg
Say do- kids identified who they would talk to at recess
Taylor & O’Reilly
FA of private verbal self-regulation
Taught learners to self instruct the steps to buying items at a grocery store by saying out loud and silently to themselves
Analyzed the function of mediating responses and found that continuous repetition of self-instructions promoted both acquisition and generalization of skills
Video modeling
Is effective when done in combination with role play
More or as effective than live modeling
It permits accentuation I’ve certain stimulus features
It can minimize distracting or irrelevant features
Autoclitics
Descriptive, qualifying, quantifying, manipulative and relational
5 components of VB Milestones
170 verbal milestones across 3 developmental levels
Barriers assessment: 24 learning and language barriers
Skill Analysis and tracking
Placement and IEP goals
Rate barrier using likert scale 0-4
Score of 3 or higher on a measure indicates significant barrier
Transition assessment
Evaluates a child’s ability to learn in a less restrictive educational environment across 18 different skills
Scores range from 0-2
Lob aaa and Eldevik demonstrates
The numbers of hours and intensity combined increased IQ scores and resulted in desirable behavior change for learners
Not important in intensity
Number of hours
7 Dimensions of ABA
A Applied -socially solves problems
B Behavioral- direct measurement
A Analytic-functional relationship
T Technological- task analysis, can be replicated
E Effective- it works, adjust as needed, ongoing data
C Conceptually Systematic- literature based; basic principles (extinction, differential reinforcement, stimulus control etc)
G Generality
Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)
Refers to general education class
Most restrictive
Institutions
