RBT Competency Assessment Graded A

Describe how to Prepare for Data Assessment - Get a pencil and appropriate data sheets [ABC Data, Manding, & NET] ready. Have all learning material ready and make sure the table is paired with reinforcers Continuous Measurement Procedures - Frequency and Duration Frequency Data - Continuous Data. Collecting Manding data because we collect it on every opportunity. Duration Data - Continuous data. Recording how long a tantrum occurred. Discontinuous Measurement Procedures - Skill Acquisition data because it's only collected on the first response of the session; this is also called Cold Probe Data. Other types include partial interval recording, whole interval recording, and momentary time sampling. Partial Interval Recording - Discontinuous Data. This is used if a behavior occurred at least once in a specified time interval. Whole Interval Recording - Discontinuous Data. This is used if a behavior occurred during the entire duration of the timed interval. Momentary Time Sampling - Discontinuous Data. This would be when you record data only every X amount of minutes. Permanent Product Recording Procedures - A 'card system' is often used. These are permanent products because they're tangible things that can be counted and measured to record progress, or to get the percentage of correct responding with target and maintenance responses. Behavior and the environment in observable and measurable terms - Ask, what does it look like? Hitting is a behavior. Things you can see are behaviors. Frustration would not be a behavior because you cannot see frustration. Behavior should be described in __________ and __________ terms. - Observable and Measurable Preference Assessments - Formal ways to determine potential reinforcers. In some ABA programs, clients fill out a potential reinforcer survey. Otherwise, the therapist observes the child's motivation and takes note in what they are engaging with to determine reinforcers. Assist with individuals assessment procedures - RBT's role is to assist the BCBA by paring, collecting ABC data if necessary and collecting assessment data based on the learner's profile (manding, listener skills, motor imitation, etc). Assist with functional assessment procedures - RBT's role is to asst BCBA; while the BCBA is doing a Functional Assessment Interview with the caregiver, the RBT collects ABC data and implement antecedent manipulations (pairing). RBT will share data with the BCBA to be analyzed and a treatment plan developed. Essential components of a written Skill Acquisition Plan - Baseline; Where the child is at so skills aren't retaught Observable/Measureable goals; for example: Emma will spell her name with 100% accuracy Criterion for Mastery; The task will be performed a certain number of times. This is determined on the client. Some children may master the skill in 3 days others in 5 days. How to prepare for a session as required by the skill acquisition plan - Have all data sheets ready. Have the table paired with preferred items. Have all learning materials ready and available. Have all teach, target, and maintenance cards ready on the table in piles. Different contingencies of reinforcement - Continuous Reinforcement. Intermittent Reinforcement. Continuous Reinforcement - Used for teaching new skills. It is when reinforcement is provided after every correct response. Intermittent/Variable Reinforcement - Recommended once you can fade out prompts effectively. For example, you would provide reinforcement, on average, every 5-7 times. Discrete Trial Training (DTT) Procedures - A method of teaching simplified and structured steps. Instead of teaching an entire skill all at once, the skill is broken down into teachable units and built up using discrete trials that teach each step one at a time. Naturalistic Teaching Procedures (NET) - When the activity itself is reinforcing to the learner. The therapist then sets up manding opportunities while teaching across the operants related to the item/activity. Incidental Teaching is also a naturalistic teaching procedure and is often recorded on the same data sheet as NET. Incidental Teaching - Similar to NET because you're not running trials at a table. May not be motivational based however, you teach in the moment. For example, you're at the grocery store and you say "Go find a yellow fruit", they find a banana, you ask "What's it called" and they tact "Banana".