ABA Terms

1. The process of building trust and rapport
4. The repeating of previously heard utterances.
6. This term refers to gradually removing any prompts one has introduced into a teaching situation.
7. ABA therapy: This approach ensures individuals feel comfortable and have a say in what they learn and how they learn it.
10. the event, action, or circumstance that occurs immediately before a behavior.
11. Environment Training (NET): a method of teaching skills through play. It uses real-life moments to practice skills.
12. The period of observation during which we gather data relevant to the behavior of interest before we initiate an intervention.
13. The immediate outcome of the behavior
14. A person who responds to verbal behavior
16. Extra help given to a child so they can successfully complete a task

1. Reinforcement: Rewarding a child right after they complete a skill or show good behavior.
2. A request
3. Quantitative information gathered to guide the decision-making process.
5. a technique used to teach complex skills by breaking them down into more manageable steps.
6. Refers to the number of target responses counted. For example, “the student made seven initiations to his peers.”
8. This is the symbolic notation for Discriminative Stimulus. This is a stimulus that signals that a given behavior will be reinforced.
9. A measure of frequency across a specific period of time. For example, a child emits seven initiations per hour.
15. Labeling or naming