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Episode 101: How to Use Shaping to Teach New Skills with BCBA, Kristi Toward Nov 30, 2020

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Shaping is a great way to meet students where they are at and helpful them be successful while learning a new skill. School based BCBA, Kristi Toward, walks us through the process of shaping, how to collect data, and why this strategy is so effective.

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Episode 100: 100th Episode Highlight Show Nov 25, 2020

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We are 100 episodes into The Autism Helper Podcast! To celebrate, I am sharing some of my favorite moments from the past 99 episodes. Thank you for listening and supporting this podcast!

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Episode 99: Momentary Time Sampling with Hannah Foltz, BCBA Nov 23, 2020

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As a teacher, one of the hardest parts about collecting consistent data is finding the time to do it. In today's episodes, BCBA and consultant Hannah Foltz shares an efficient and easy to utilize data collection method - momentary time sampling. Momentary time sampling can help give an approximation of the frequency of a behavior without a time intensive data collection process. Hannah shares what momentary time sampling is and how you can collect data using this method!

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Episode 98: The Least Reinforcing Scenario with Shannon Shy, BCBA Nov 18, 2020

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There are many situations when a new negative behavior starts and we don’t know what to do next. We don’t yet know the function of the behavior and don’t want to unintentionally reinforce the response. In these situations, we should use the least reinforcing scenario. School Psychologist and BCBA, Shannon Shy, describes what the least reinforcing scenario is, how we can use it, and how it will cause positive behavior change!

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Episode 97: Teaching Tolerance of Delay and Denial with Abbey Mix, school based BCBA Nov 16, 2020

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Sometimes in life we are told no or we are told to wait. It’s not always fun and it’s not always easy. In this episode - school based BCBA, Abbey Mix, shares how to approach this situation through a skill based mindset. We can identify that there may be a missing skill of knowing how to wait or knowing how to accept being told no. Once we can identify this missing skill, we can target teaching an appropriate response. Be sure to check associated links below for more info!
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FTF Behavioral Consulting: https://ftfbc.com/
Practical Functional Assessment: https://practicalfunctionalassessment.com/
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Episode 96: Identifying a Replacement Behavior Based on Function of a Behavior with Kate Patterson, BCBA Nov 11, 2020

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It is essential to approach decreasing a negative behavior from a skills acquisition perspective. A negative behavior serves a function and we need to teach a new way to get access to that same function. Kate Patterson, a BCBA with both school and home-based experience, goes through the whole process of utilizing replacement behaviors. Kate shares how to get to the hypothesized function, what replacement behaviors could look like, and what to do when there may be multiple functions.

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Episode 95: Offering Choices for Non-Preferred Tasks with Laura Verzi-Alesczyk Nov 09, 2020

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The skill of making a decision is an important one. It teaches autonomy, leads to more independence, and helps give control. Special Education Teacher and BCBA, Laura Verzi-Aleszczyk, shares how she uses choices with her students and clients. Laura discusses why giving frequent choices are helpful especially during non-preferred activities. Laura gives the prerequisites for this strategies and tons of real-world based examples of utilizes this in a home or school setting.

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Episode 94: There Will Be Consequences! An Interview with BCBA, Hilary McClinton Nov 04, 2020

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Consequences have a bad reputation when really they don’t have to be bad. Consequences follow all of our behaviors, can be positive or negative, and can be planned or unplanned. In this Mini ABA Episode, BCBA Hilary McClinton shares what consequences are and why it’s important to be able to identify consequences within the environment.
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Episode 93: Why Behaviors Happen & How Teaching Communication Skills Can Help with BCBA, Jessica Zielske Nov 02, 2020

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All behaviors happen for a reason. In today’s episode, we will be diving into the potential reasons why behavior could be happening. BCBA, Jessica Zielske, shares the 4 functions of behavior and why it’s especially important to figure out why behaviors are happening when we are looking for behavior change.
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Learn more from Jessica at www.theblondebehavioranalyst.com and on instagram @theblondebehavioranalyst.

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Episode 92: All About the Premack Principle with Stacey Francesconi Oct 28, 2020

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The Premack Principle is something you probably use on a daily basis and didn’t even realize it. In this episode, we breakdown what the Premack Principle is, how to use it effectively, and how to get your teams on board. Former special education teacher and BCBA, Stacey Francesconi, goes in-depth into “grandma’s rule” and how this even applies to our own lives. Stacey is also the co-host of the podcast The Contingency Clique.
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