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To Gift or Not to Gift?
Ever wonder why your BCBA or RBT may politely decline a gift? ABA professionals follow ethical guidelines around giving and receiving gifts to help maintain appropriate professional boundaries, and sometimes, it really is as simple as “it’s not you, it’s us.”
Reactivity: Is it just me?!
Reactivity occurs when behavior changes simply because someone is being observed. From classrooms to clinical sessions, learn why being watched can influence behavior and how observation can become more natural over time.
Super Prompt to the Rescue!
Prompts can give us the extra help we need to learn new skills, but knowing when and how to fade them is just as important. Effective prompting helps build confidence, reduce dependency, and move learners toward greater independence.
Before the Behavior: Antecedents
What happens before a behavior can tell us a lot about why it occurs. Antecedents are the events, situations, or changes in our environment that come before behavior and can help us better understand what happens next.
Chaining
Ever start a task and realize there are way more steps than you thought? Vacuuming is a perfect example. Before the vacuum even turns on, there’s already a whole chain of behaviors happening. That’s where behavior chaining comes in.
Extinction
Extinction in ABA has nothing to do with dinosaurs, despite the name. In this blog, one very relatable placemat mix-up helps break down extinction, extinction bursts, and why behavior doesn’t always change just because reinforcement does.