1. Guiding Your Strong Willed Child
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2. Week 8
Review Sticky Subjects
Community Specific Praise
Content A Better Way
Collaboration The Road That Works

3. Ups & Downs
Content
Something is
ADDED
Something is
SUBTRACTED
Probability of
Behavior
INCREASES
Positive
Reinforcement
Negative
Reinforcement
Probability of
Behavior
DECREASES
Positive
Punishment
Negative
Punishment

4. Special Antecedents
• Trying to teach a new behavior?
– Change the reinforcing-ness of a reinforcer
– Put ESTABLISHING OPERATIONS to work for you
• Deprivation: Reserve a favorite toy as a special reinforcer
• Advertising: Make watching a movie… “Movie Night!”
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5. Special Antecedents
• Trying to teach a new behavior?
– Send effective signals about what behavior will be
reinforced
– Harness discriminative stimuli
to help the child choose
the best path
• Are my words to be trusted?
• Can I help her to predict which
outcome will best serve her?
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6. Week 8
Review Tricky Topics
Community Specific Praise
Content A Better Way
Collaboration The Road That Works

7. At Home Extensions
Community

8. Specific Praise Tips
• Watch for child to do something well – especially if
it is a new skill
– Susie has been pulling her dog’s fur and is learning to
pet it instead
• Specifically name what she does
– “Good job being nice!” becomes “You pet Bjorn with
the back of your hand”
• Highlight the natural consequence
– “Look he is staying next to you now! He must feel safe!”
Community

9. Week 8
Review Tricky Topics
Community Specific Praise
Content A Better Way
Collaboration The Road That Works

10. Nuts & Bolts of Behavior
Extinction &
Preference
Assessments
Operational
Definitions
Establishing
Operations &
Discriminative Stimuli
Antecedent
Original
Behavior
Replacement
Behavior
Consequence
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11. Today’s Gift from Science
Operational
Definitions
Establishing
Operations &
Discriminative Stimuli
Antecedent
Original
Behavior
Replacement
Behavior
Consequence
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12. The Key to It All
• “Research has shown that the most effective way to
reduce problem behavior in children is to
strengthen desirable behavior through positive
reinforcement rather than trying to weaken
undesirable behavior using aversive or negative
processes.” – Dr. Sidney Bijou
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13. What Can I Do Instead?
• Pick a replacement behavior that will better serve
your child but will result in the same functional
consequence
• In other words, IT MUST WORK AS WELL OR
BETTER if it is going to stick on its own
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14. “Best” may not be “Healthiest”
• Challenging behavior: Eating full bar of chocolate
• Replacement behavior: Eating ______________
• Depends on function but probably NOT CELERY
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15. Week 8
Review Tricky Topics
Community Specific Praise
Content A Better Way
Collaboration The Road That Works

16. ContentCollaboration

17. Road That Works
• After your child using a replacement behavior,
consider drawing a road map with him or her as a
celebration
• Your child can bind many of these road maps
together to make a book
• Spend most of your time diagramming the “road
that works”
• Make the “road that doesn’t work” boring!
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18. Road That Works
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19. Road That Works
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20. It is time for a Mini HAT
• Use remaining time to try out the A Better Way tool
• We will be using this tool in our last two weeks
together to help you successfully replace a
challenging behavior
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21. Fill in the Blanks
• My child currently (challenging behavior).
• (The consequence) is maintaining the behavior.
• Often (antecedent) comes before the behavior.
• Instead, we would like to teach him/her to
(replacement behavior) in order to access (the
consequence).
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22. At-Home Extension
• DUE ON SUNDAY at MIDNIGHT. No late videos.
– Please draw a road map and film yourself
explaining it as if to your child…30 sec MAX
• “When someone knocks over your tower, what do you want?”
• “OK you want help to rebuild it! Let’s look at the road map.”
• “You have a choice. If you hit him will him help you rebuild it?”
• “No, you are right. Probably not. That is the road that does
not work. But, if you ask a teacher for help will she help you
rebuild it?
• “OK! So the road that works is?”
• “That’s it! Asking the teacher for help is the road that works!”
Collaboration