Last week's blog entry featured our Fact Sheet on Discrete Trial Training. Today we share our family- and community-friendly Information Sheet on the same topic: What is it? This is a one-to-one instructional approach used to teach skills in a highly controlled, step-by-step manner in order to reduce problem behaviors and teach functional replacement or alternative … [Read more...] about New Project ACCESS Information Sheet: Discrete Trial Training (DTT)

Task Analysis and Chaining are an evidence-based practice as listed in the Missouri Autism Guidelines Initiative (MAGI) publication Autism Spectrum Disorders: Guide to Evidence-Based Interventions. Simply put, task analysis involves breaking a skill into smaller steps, and chaining is the process of sequencing those steps into the full skill. Let’s look at a … [Read more...] about New Project ACCESS Information Sheet – Task Analysis and Chaining

We all know prompting is a strategy to encourage responses from our learners.  But, did you know there are right ways and wrong ways to prompt?  Prompting, done incorrectly, can decrease learner success. Think about this scenario:  Gene is learning to respond verbally to, “What is this?”  His teacher/therapist/mom/para says, “What is this?”  Gene … [Read more...] about New Project ACCESS Information Sheet – Prompting/Errorless Learning

Choosing to teach or reinforce a behavior that is an alternate to challenging behavior can be tricky.  If you haven’t read our Information Sheet on Functional Behavior Assessment (FBA) yet, please refer to our blog post from July 21st (link follows: Functional Behavior Assessment)  to refresh your understanding of functional equivalence. This is key to behavior … [Read more...] about New Project ACCESS Information Sheet ~ Choosing an Alternate Behavior

A Functional Behavior Assessment or FBA is listed as an effective intervention in the Missouri Autism Guidelines Initiative (MAGI) publication, Autism Spectrum Disorders: Guide to Evidence-based Interventions. This is an assessment procedure involving data collected over time to determine the function or purpose of a behavior.  Effective behavioral support plans based … [Read more...] about New Project ACCESS Information Sheet – Functional Behavior Assessment