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Application of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)

Amy Alford, M.Ed., BCBA

Clinical Consultant

Bureau of Autism Services

March 15, 2018


• Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) involves several

principles for teaching skills to all individuals, not just for

those diagnosed with Autism. This training will put a

new spin on the principles of ABA to show how it is

applicable to everyday things we do from a practical

perspective. Using these techniques can then be

generalized to the supports we provide to individuals in our programs.

Intent of Today’s Training


• Please note: The sound of the video will NOT be heard through the phone line.

• If you are able to switch to Computer Audio, you should be able to hear and watch it.

If you are in this mode but cannot hear, check the volume and see if anything additional (e.g. an extra headset) is plugged into your computer

• If watching this training via recording, the video may not play. However, you can watch it by copying the link to your respective browser

VIDEO- https://youtu.be/Ijd7-riwOdQ

https://youtu.be/Ijd7-riwOdQ





• Animal Training

• Organizational Behavior Management

• Classrooms/Schools/Education

• Parenting

• Marketing

• Business and Industry

• Autism Spectrum Disorder

• ADHD

• Behavioral Medicine and Health Related Behaviors

ABA wears many hats

• Mental Health Disorders (Such as oppositional defiant disorder, depression, etc.)

• Environment/Sustainable Societies

• Gerontology

• Forensics

• Gambling

• Sports/ Sports Psychology

• Rehabilitation

• Physical Health

• Self-Management

Psych Central Professional. 2016


For today, I want to focus on 2 areas where almost everyone can relate to on a personal

level

● Parenting ● Self-Management


PARENTING


Define the Behavior


Set Goals

Develop and Implement Strategies

Develop and Implement Strategies (at home)

Develop and Implement Strategies (At home), cont…

Develop and Implement Strategies (community)

Collect Data

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

7:45- all on floor 8:24- dribble in potty, most on floor 8:43- in potty, on her own 9:01- in potty, on her own 9:38- in potty, on her own 11:24- in potty, on her own 11:52- in potty, on her own 12:45-3:30- Nap- pull-up wet 5:05- in potty, on her own 5:45- in potty, on her own 6:00- in potty, on her own 6:15- in potty, on her own 6:30- in potty, on her own 8:00- in potty, on her own 9:00- in potty, on her own

6:30- woke up, diaper wet, small poop in diaper 8:43- in potty, on her own 9:00- put shorts on 9:30- accident in shorts 10:15- in potty, needed help pulling down shorts 10:30- in potty, needed help pulling down shorts 11-11:30ish- showed poop face, sat her on potty with video, no poop 11:33- in potty, needed help pulling down shorts 12:00- Nap on couch 1:30- woke up, peed through shorts 1:35- in potty, needed help pulling down shorts. Then asked to go back to bed. Put dry shorts on and pad on bed 3:20- woke up dry, put on potty but didn’t go 3:55- in potty, needed help pulling down shorts 5:10- in potty, pulled own pants down, little pee on ground 6:30- in potty, needed help pulling down shorts 8:10- in potty, some help pulling down pants 8:40- in potty, some help pulling down pants 9:20- in potty, some help pulling down pants, put in pull up for bed

6:45, woke up, pull-up very wet, tried potty but didn’t go 8:05- accident in pants being silly -successful and dry car ride to dunkin 8:45- in potty, on her own 9:55- in potty, on her own 10:55- in potty, on her own 11:35- accident in underwear on kitchen floor 12:10- in potty, on her own 12:20- went again in potty, needed some help with pulling down pull-up, then Nap 3:40- woke up. Pull-up wet 4:00- pooped on the potty! 4:30- in potty, on her own 6:10- in potty, some help pull down pants 7:30- in potty, on her own 9:15- in potty, some help

Evaluate Change

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5%

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35%

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Independently or with help?

independently n/a with help

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10%

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35%

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Successfully in Potty?

no yes

Evaluate Change

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2

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6

Success across time

no yes

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0.5

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1.5

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2.5

3

3.5

Independent or with help across time

independently n/a with help


• Don’t let these first few days fool you…

• Here’s what we encountered:

Babysitter needed her in pull-ups or thicker training underwear, which wasn’t what I wanted

Got an ear infection 2 weeks in and then a UTI from the antibiotic, so she regressed a little

Forgot the travel potty on a few occasions

Decided to not even attempt night-time potty training

Became too focused on m&ms, stickers, and lollipops, so faded those rather quickly

Took awhile to leave the house for long periods of time

Full Disclosure…


Maintenance


SELF-MANAGEMENT


Define the Behavior


• Realistic

• Individualized

Set Goals


Develop and Implement Strategies


• Keep it simple

• Use technology, if appropriate

• May change overtime

Collect Data


Evaluate Change


• Goal- second nature, becomes part of your established routine

• Change it up, step it up

Maintenance

Characteristics of ABA

Applied: The behavior involved is significant to participant

Conceptually Systematic:

Procedures, outcomes are described in terms of

basic principles of behavior

Generality: The changes generalize to new environments

and participants

Behavioral: The behavior is the

target of modification in itself

Effective: The change is

significant to the participant,

efficient, and probable to be

generalized and maintained

Technological: Procedures are completely

and precisely described, which can be replicated

Baer, Wolf, and Risley (1968)

Analytic: Identified the functional

relations between behavior and the

environmental variables

Adapted from ddteaching.com


• Everything a person or living thing does is behavior

• A behavior ≠ challenging, problematic, negative

• Most behaviors are learned

• Learning is often systematic (think- school) but also natural (think- social, home)

• Good instruction = good outcomes

• Poor/unplanned instruction = poor outcomes

• Poor outcomes may take a long time to reverse

A few final thoughts

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