Unit 3 Teaching Social Skills & Advanced Learners: Placement, IEP, and Considerations

Question 1

Social skills

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Social skills are hard to teach because they

Answer 2

Involve verbally-governed bx

Are situational specific

Vary according to the social environment

Question 3

Dr. Tu recommends asking this question before teaching social skills

Answer 3

What equips the learner with strategies that work best in specific social settings?

Question 4

Social verbal bx

Answer 4

Controlled by the immediate verbal community

Question 5

Social nonverbal behavior

Answer 5

Are often controlled by social rules that may not be verbally mediated by the verbal community

Question 6

Attending and interacting skills

Answer 6

Taught by manding, imitation and play skills

Question 7

Social skills groups to target

Answer 7

Appropriate attention seeking

Reciprocation

Conversational skills

Question 8

Critical components of social skills group

Answer 8

1-2 peer models

1 group leader

1:1 staff ratio at the beginning

Groups conducted at least 1-2 times per week

Question 9

Use natural stimuli and consequences when teaching:

Answer 9

Eye contact

Initiation

Reciprocation

Question 10

Correspondence training

Answer 10

Only reinforced when doing and saying are both observed.

Promotes generalization

Do say and say do

Question 11

Rosenberg

Answer 11

Say do- kids identified who they would talk to at recess

Question 12

Taylor & O’Reilly

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Video modeling

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Autoclitics

Answer 14

Descriptive, qualifying, quantifying, manipulative and relational

Question 15

5 components of VB Milestones

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Transition assessment

Answer 16

Evaluates a child’s ability to learn in a less restrictive educational environment across 18 different skills

Scores range from 0-2

Question 17

Lob aaa and Eldevik demonstrates

Answer 17

The numbers of hours and intensity combined increased IQ scores and resulted in desirable behavior change for learners

Question 18

Not important in intensity

Answer 18

Number of hours

Question 19

7 Dimensions of ABA

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Least Restrictive Environment (LRE)

Answer 20

Refers to general education class

Question 21

Most restrictive

Answer 21

Institutions