2 Antecedent Interventions Free Online FlashCards

What are antecedent interventions?

They change events or conditions before behavior occurs, aiming to make challenging behavior less necessary and desired behavior easier.

What should guide the choice of an antecedent strategy?

Choose a strategy based on a reasonable hypothesis about what the behavior helps the learner obtain or avoid, not on the behavior alone.

What supports may fit writing-related escape behavior?

Break work into smaller parts, offer choices such as response method or task order, and teach a request for help or a brief break.

What antecedent supports may fit attention-seeking call-outs?

Arrange predictable check-ins, clarify an appropriate way to get attention, and teach the learner to request it.

What may help when a learner grabs an unavailable item?

Use a visual schedule or clear cue showing when the item will be available, and teach the learner to ask for it or ask when it will be available.

What may help with behavior related to sensory or automatic effects?

Adjust the environment when feasible, such as reducing noise or providing an appropriate movement option, and teach a request for the needed support.

What are examples of arranging the environment?

Adjust seating, reduce distractions, use visual schedules or timers, make materials accessible, or adapt task size or response method.

How should meaningful choices be offered?

Offer a small number of genuine options while keeping the essential expectation clear; do not offer options that are unavailable.

What is a high-probability sequence?

Give a few brief, familiar requests the learner is likely to follow immediately before presenting a more difficult request.

What forms can an appropriate request take?

Depending on the learner, the request may use speech, a sign, a gesture, a picture card, or an AAC device.

What does functional communication training teach?

Functional communication training teaches a replacement communication response that accesses the same kind of reinforcement as the behavior it is meant to replace.

What should be observed when describing a behavior pattern?

Describe what happens just before the behavior and what tends to happen afterward; use those observations to state a tentative function.