Evidence-Based Practices

A visual display that supports the learner engaging in a desired behavior or skills independent of additional prompts.

• Visual Modeling

• Video Modeling

• Visual Supports

Answer explanation

Interventions that target a person’s ability to integrate sensory information (visual, auditory, tactile, proprioceptive, and vestibular) from their body and environment in order to respond using organized and adaptive behavior

• Sensory Disorder

• Sensory Integration

• Sensory Modulation

Answer explanation

Prompting (PP) is...

• Verbal, gestural, or physical assistance given to learners to support them in acquiring or engaging in a targeted behavior or skill.

• Verbal, or physical assistance given to learners to support them in acquiring or engaging in a targeted behavior or skill.

• Gestural, or physical assistance given to learners to support them in acquiring or engaging in a targeted behavior or skill.

Answer explanation

The application of a consequence following a learner’s use of a response or skills that increases the likelihood that the learner will use the response/skills in the future.

• Enforcement

• Bribery

• Reinforcement

Answer explanation

A practice used to systematically fade the use of prompts during instructional activities by using a brief delay between the initial instruction and any additional instructions or prompts.

• Dime Telay

• Time Delay

• Time Relay

Answer explanation

Augmentative and Alternative Communication is an...

• intervention using a system of communication that is not verbal/vocal which can be aided (e.g., device, communication book) or unaided (e.g., sign language)

• interventions teaching the use of a system of communication that is not verbal/vocal which can be aided (e.g., device, communication book) or unaided (e.g., sign language)

• interventions using and/or teaching the use of a system of communication that is not verbal/vocal which can be aided (e.g., device, communication book) or unaided (e.g., sign language)

Answer explanation

The organization of behavior expectations in a sequence in which low probability, or more difficult, responses are embedded in a series of high probability, or less effortful, responses to increase persistence and the occurrence of the low probability responses.

• Body Mass Index

• Behavioral Momentum Intervention

• Behavior Moment Intervention

Answer explanation

A systematic way of determining the underlying function or purpose of a behavior so that an effective intervention plan can be developed.

• Functional Behavioral Assessment

• Behavioral Intervention Plan

• Functional Behavior Assessment

Answer explanation

A systematic approach to teaching using a sequenced instructional package with scripted protocols or lessons. It emphasizes teacher and student dialogue through choral and independent student responses and employs systematic and explicit error corrections to promote mastery and generalization.

• Explicit Instruction

• Indirect Instruction

• Direct Instruction

Answer explanation

Instructional approach with massed or repeated trials with each trial consisting of the teacher’s instruction/presentation, the child’s response, a carefully planned consequence, and a pause prior to presenting the next instruction.

• Dithiothreitol

• Discrete Trial Training

• Discrete Trail Training

Answer explanation