Good Behavior

Our intervention approaches for James will include establishment and prevention. We will focus on establishing client factors and performance skills. Client factors will include sensory functions and movement functions (AOTA, 2014). Performance skills will include motor and process skills (AOTA, 2014). Also, we will prevent any further contractures along with preventing environmental distractions. James may have a hard time attending to task due to overstimulation of the visual or auditory…

Reinforcement schedules are important to understand in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis, and in the establishment of new behaviors. When examining the task analysis for a new client, it is important to determine the schedule of reinforcement. According to Cooper et al., (2007), a fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement determines how many responses should be completed to produce the reinforcer, and provide a high rate of responding for the high rate of reinforcement (p.306). For example,…

Fostering positive guidance in young children’s behavior is vitally important to the development of the child’s growth. Children learn from day to day what they should and should not do. We cannot expect them to know what to do just because we told them on yesterday, we should be prepared to show them and demonstrate to them what positive behavior is. When we foster positive behavior we are directing them and helping them understand what is right and what is wrong. Teaching children not to be…

therapeutic interventions such as cognitive behaviour therapy may be effective. Ensuring that verbal and written communication, reading material, documents and resources are tangible and to the point to maintain engagement. An effective counsellor with good rapport skills and intuition will recognise that modifications may be necessary around objectives, goals, timeframes including shorter, more frequent sessions to introducing relaxation techniques to ensure opportunity for improved treatment…

To the Webster dictionary the noun anomaly defines as, “something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected”. In the entirety of my early educational career I have fluctuated between both sides of the deviation chart. When someone like me does not fit into a standard, I unintentionally created a dilemma for many of my previous teachers, parents as well as setting a personal goal for myself. Even though I had this problem, I had a drive to always help people in so matter or way.…

within the self-contained classroom. During the first few weeks of intervention I used a Social StoryTM intervention, followed by positive reinforcement for the target behavior. After last week’s observation of resistance to the Social StoryTM; intervention planning shifted towards priming and using first next charts. The behavior continued to be reinforced using a token economy on a fixed interval schedule every five minutes. The first observation from this week, is attentive listening skills…

for the young and all people in an equal way .Moreover am very young girl and I look up for those people who are older ,wiser and have more knowledge about different aspect of life then me .Many people who take this test associate young people with good and old people with bad .There are different ways to look at this, everyone have their own way of thinking and…

Paul’s behavior of getting out of his seat and walking around. This method provides positive reinforcement to a child by awarding him or her with tokens, stickers, check marks, or stars when they behaved in a desired way. The schedule of reinforcement Ann is using is known as fixed interval schedule since she has broken down Paul’s target behavior into 5-minute intervals in which he is to perform the task. After the 5-minute set time, Ann reinforces Paul with tokens which impacts his behavior.…

stages-of-change model of health behavior provides six stages that are useful when it comes to making changes for yourself or helping to motivate others. “The stages-of-change model has been successfully applied to numerous behavioral health risks and has helped people with multiple risk factors make progress in changing several at the same time” (Knickman & Kovner, 2015, p. 128). The stages-of-change model is helpful model when it comes to treatment of health behavior because it does not follow…

The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in children with autism seems to be pretty predominant in an attempt to address their behavior issues. One of the CAM treatments used in this population is the controversial chelation therapy, a process where the removal of heavy metals from the body such as mercury and lead is used. This approach obeys to the theory that some types of autism are caused by heavy metal poisoning. The process can be conducted in different forms such as…