Generalization and Maintenance

This session reviews the concepts of generalization and maintenance. These strategies promote continuation of behavioral changes and the extension of learned behaviors from one context to another.

Teaching Skills 1

This session provides parents with step-by-step procedures for teaching skills that increase a child’s independence and promote positive behavioral change.

Compliance Training

This module provides instruction on the Four-Step Compliance Procedure, including how to reinforce compliance and how to manage episodes of noncompliance.

Reinforcement 2

In this session, the parent will learn to increase the use of social reinforcement for appropriate behaviors during interactions with the child. This can involve “catching the child being good” throughout the day or during a more formal play time.

Core Sessions Behavioral Principles

This session provides an overview of the basic principles of the behavioral approach, the ABC model, and the importance of assessment in deciding upon strategies to address challenging behavior.

Planned Ignoring

This module is about a particular type of consequence: planned ignoring. It includes the proper use of planned ignoring, possible challenges to its use, and the development of a planned ignoring program at home.

Functional Communication Training

As challenging behaviors typically serve a function for the child, this session introduces the idea of teaching an alternative and more appropriate functional communication behavior to replace the inappropriate or undesirable behavior.

Daily Schedules

This session focuses on obtaining a daily schedule for the child and helping the parent identify ways to adapt the schedule to prevent behavior problems from occurring. This session also introduces the use of visual schedules. The clinician can focus on schedule changes, visual schedules, or both. Doing both is recommended.

Teaching Skills 2

This session continues with teaching skills by reviewing a variety of prompts that can be used to enhance a child’s skill acquisition.

Reinforcement 1

This session has parents focus on the child’s appropriate behaviors, rather than behaviors they want to decrease or eliminate. Emphasis should be placed on daily living skills that are within the child’s capabilities but are not consistently performed independently. Parents will identify reinforcers for their child and learn to use them to increase target behaviors.