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Functional communication training (FCT) is an effective, evidence-based method to teach individuals how to replace inappropriate problem behavior with appropriate, recognizable, functional forms of...

Chaining is a helpful technique that you can use to teach your child many complex behaviors.

With chaining, you take a multi-step task and break it down into a sequence of smaller tasks. The...

Shaping is a helpful technique that you can use to teach your child many complex behaviors.

With shaping, the learner learns by first approximately performing the goal behavior. As the...

Modeling is a teaching technique in which the teacher demonstrates a desired behavior or response to a learner. In ABA, modeling is often used to teach communication and social skills (such as...

Textual behavior is reading! It’s important to note that just because someone is engaging in textual behavior, it does not mean they are understanding what is being read.

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Listener Responding (LR) sometimes known as receptive language, requires the listener to respond to another’s verbal behavior.

Here’s an example: if you say “Where are your...

An echoic is what occurs when verbal behavior has point-to-point correspondence with its preceding verbal stimulus (Skinner, 1957). In layman’s terms, it’s a verbal imitation of what...

Intraverbal means responding to the spoken (or signed) words of others without repeating exactly what the other person just said, as in a conversation.

For example, one might say to a friend,...

A tact simply is a label for something.

A tact (a word derived from “contact” with the environment) occurs when you see, smell, taste, hear, or touch something in your environment, and...

The easiest way to remember what a mand is is to think of it as a comMAND from the learner. Its is essentially a request from the child. A learner will mand for an item, activity or information...

The Premack Principle is an incredibly useful tool to keep in your ABA toolbox! The premack principle is otherwise known as “Grandma’s Law”. The term Grandma’s Law comes...

Token Economies are used as a contingency for positive reinforcement with a learner. They are a system for providing positive reinforcement to a learn by giving them tokens for completing tasks or...