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How Should Teachers Treat Students with Special Needs?
As an educator, teachers have the opportunity to play a major role in influencing the lives of young people. Working with children, and helping them shape their future is a very rewarding job and it is even more rewarding and worthwhile when working with children with special needs. However, as with every career path and…
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ABA Technique: Shaping
Shaping is an ABA technique that provides differential reinforcement for a progression of responses that are similar to the target response. It is the use of successive approximations of the desired behavior. The process of Shaping starts by breaking down the desired behavior into smaller and more manageable steps. Each step that the child successfully…
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ABA Technique: Self-Management
Self-management is a strategy to increase independence and teach new skills and behaviors through monitoring, recording, and rewarding one’s own behavior. In self-management, the individual monitors his own behavior, rather than someone else doing it. Components of self-management Set a goal or desired behavior Arrange the environment to make it more likely for the…
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ABA Technique: Differential Reinforcement
The differential Reinforcement technique is a process of giving and withholding reinforcement in order to encourage the desired behavior. This technique is done differently for each child, and it depends on their behavior level. As opposed to the traditional reinforcement technique where a reward and punishment are given based on the child’s behavior, differential…
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ABA Technique: Video Modeling
Video Modeling is an ABA teaching method used to develop and strengthen communication skills, academic performance, and social and self-help skills. The targeted behaviors that the child is to learn are videotaped. Then the child watches the video and is given the chance to memorize, imitate, and generalize those behaviors. For example, the goal behavior…
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ABA Technique: Behavior Chaining
One of the ABA Techniques used for children with difficulties is Behavior Changing. Behavior chaining is a technique where there is a specific sequence of responses in which the completion of each response provides a cue to engage in the next response. Behavior chaining breaks down complex skills or behavior into smaller units for…
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ABA technique: Positive Reinforcement
There are different ABA techniques that are commonly used in managing children with difficulties. These are Positive reinforcement, behavior chaining, video modeling, differential reinforcements, self-management, and shaping. Each of them has different processes and goals. Let’s discuss what positive reinforcement is. Positive reinforcement is a concept that can be used to help teach and…
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The ABA Process
In our previous article, we discussed the two types of Behavioral Management for children with special needs. In this article, we will focus on the ABA technique as it is the commonly used method in managing children with special needs. First, we need to know what the ABA process is. The ABA program must be…
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Types of Behavioral Management
There are two behavioral management models that are commonly used in facilitating children with special needs. The Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). The Applied Behavior Analysis or ABA technique addresses specific and immediate behavioral issues. On the other hand, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT takes a much broader approach to encourage wholesome…
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ADHD Parenting
Parenting can be tough, but it is tougher when parenting a child with an ADHD condition. Your child needs more support and attention, especially during the early developmental stage. It can be very frustrating because it is a very difficult time for both the children and the parents but there are ways how to reduce…
