The Autism Helper Podcast

Choice is important. It’s the foundation of functional independence, problem solving skills, and a sense of autonomy. BCBA, Margaret Hatteberg is sharing how to utilize choice as an antecedent intervention. This simple strategy can have a huge impact on increasing cooperation and decreasing negative behaviors.

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Approaching behavior change from a proactive perspective is more likely to be effective and long lasting than a purely reactive strategy. In this episode, BCBA Natalie Odio, the owner of Onward Behavioral Services, shares how to use non-contingent reinforcement in a user friendly way. Natalie defines NCR and shares classroom based examples as well as examples from her own life. We discuss how to select time intervals and utilize this strategy within a busy classroom setting.

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Behavioral Momentum is an evidence based strategy that helps you take a proactive approach at helping your learners be successful with challenging demands. BCBA and Founder of Ability ABA, PLLC, Amy Foxman shares what behavioral momentum is and the steps for using it. Amy breakdowns why this strategy is effective and how teachers can share this strategy with their teams.

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A task analysis breaks down a complex behavior chain into specific behaviors. Jana Sarno, BCBA and Chief Clinical Officer for Autism in Motions Clinic, shares why creating a task analysis is helpful and how to do it. Jana gives examples of different skills this can be utilized for, what data you can collect, and - most importantly - what to do with that data!

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When thinking about reducing problem behaviors, we actually want to focus on increasing missing positive behaviors. These replacement skills are essential to long lasting behavior change. When working with individuals with special needs who have a history of trauma, there are some special considerations we should make when approaching how to teach these skills and how to respond to negative behaviors.

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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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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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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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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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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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