BCAT Treatment-Skill Acquisition
Discrimination Training and Teaching Strategies
1. Discrimination Training
This is the process of reinforcing a target response only when the specific antecedent or discriminative
stimulus (SD) is present.
2. Simultaneous Discrimination Training
In t...
This is the process of reinforcing a target response only when the specific antecedent or discriminative
stimulus (SD) is present.
2. Simultaneous Discrimination Training
In this method, multiple objects are presented to the child, who is then asked to touch, point to, or
pick up one of the items.
3. Successive Discrimination Training
Here, the target stimulus and distractors are not shown at the same time; rather, they alternate across
different trials.
4. Expanded Trials
This technique involves systematically increasing the intervals between presentations of the target SD
by gradually incorporating a greater number of previously mastered targets in between trials.
5. Graduated Random Rotation
In this strategy, mastered items are systematically introduced, one at a time, into the random rotation
with the target item.
6. Discrete Trial Training (DTT)
This is a teaching method that isolates a specific task and teaches it through repeated trials. Each trial
includes a specific antecedent, an expected response, and a consequence that follows the response.
7. Natural Environment Training (NET)
This approach focuses on teaching procedures in the client’s natural environment, utilizing familiar
situations and items to teach relevant skills while capitalizing on the client’s motivation.
, 8. Fluency-Based Instruction
This method focuses on enhancing the accuracy and speed of an existing skill's performance to
develop overall competence.
9. Generalization
This refers to the ability of a learned behavior to occur in different environments, with various objects,
people, or instructions.
10. Maintenance
This concept addresses the extent to which a learner continues to demonstrate the target behavior
after the intervention has been partially or completely withdrawn.
11. Caregiver Training
This involves the time caregivers spend learning with the Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
about ASD, understanding its effects on their child, and acquiring strategies to address areas of
deficiency and excess behaviors.
12. Premack Principle
This principle states that a highly preferred activity can be used to reinforce a less preferred activity.
For example, "If you clean your room, you can go to the mall."
13. Preference Assessments
This entails providing clients with free access to potentially reinforcing items to observe their
preferences, which can be structured (formal) or informal. These assessments should be conducted
frequently.
Prompting Techniques
14. Prompt
A prompt is any additional stimulus provided along with the SD to assist the client in responding
correctly.
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