What Is an ABA Contingency Map?

When it comes to behavior reduction, collecting more data does not always lead to better clinical decisions. We need data that help us understand what behavior is communicating, evaluate whether our interventions are working, and determine what to do next.We talk about why detail ...  Show more

Data guide our clinical decisions, but collecting more data doesn’t always mean collecting better data. The right measurement system should give us meaningful information without interfering with teaching or taking our attention away from the learner.We explore how to choose ABA ...  Show more

Even if we have the most kickin' plan on the planet for this student with tons of preventive strategies and replacement skills being taught, the behavior is still going to occur at some point. And so it’s critically important this we write out this part of the plan for everyone t ...  Show more

I talked in Episode 7 about the need to look at the function of the challenging behaviors rather than the form.  Why we focus on whether it gets something or avoids something rather than whether it's biting or spitting.  In this episode, I give you a deeper dive into what those f ...  Show more

As I noted in the last episode it is important that we teach skills that serve the function of the behavior from our functional behavior assessment (FBA).  However, only teaching those skills is wasting a lot of the information that our FBA gained for us.  Based on our ABC data a ...  Show more