Teaching, managing, supervising, etc. requires some amount of scaffolding to train new skills. For example, providing explicit instruction, demonstrating the performance, immediate feedback, and even physical guidance are all used to help learn a new skill. However, if not faded from the instruction, then the learner becomes dependent on the guidance to perform the task. Several strategies can help mitigate prompt-dependency and we talk about them!

Links for Today:

https://childmind.org/article/controversy-around-applied-behavior-analysis/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311908.2019.1641258#:~:text=The%20operant%20conditioning%20and%20compliance,typical%20clients%20would%20never%20pass.

https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/what-is-aba/

https://www.inbloomautism.com/post/is-aba-abusive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVXckOGvpMs

We are on Reddit! https://www.reddit.com/user/WhyWeDoWhatWeDo

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