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The Benefits of Teaching Leisure Skills
Leisure skill training is an important, yet, often overlooked area of development for the individuals we work with. Sometimes we believe that leisure engagement is not a skill we teach. This is a myth. Or we allow an individual to engage with an activity in a...
Helpful Hints for Changing Habits
Some Habit History Habits, habit behaviors, or habit disorders are often defined as repetitive, body-focused behaviors that serve no adaptive function and are often unwanted due to the stress or functional impairment they cause (Hansen, Tishelman, Hawking, &...
A How-to: Prompting 101
Prompting Understanding and applying prompts is an important component of a Safety-Care trainer's skillset. A prompt is a supplemental stimulus that guides the trainee to the correct response. When teaching any verbal or physical competency, a trainer may apply a...
Communicating Through Challenging Behaviors
We all know that the cry of an infant means they are communicating their wants and needs. Since the infant is not born with the knowledge or ability to speak, it engages in crying behavior to communicate. In reaching developmental milestones, infants learn new and...
How do I get my 24 hours of Safety-Care Training in?
Safety-Care trainers are expected to do 24 hours of trainer per year. If they fail to do so, they are required to participate in an additional online supplemental webinar with a master trainer. This supplemental has a separate fee and must be completed either...
Fantasy Sports: The Great Socially Distanced Social Activity
What? Why? If you’re not familiar with fantasy sports (if you skip ahead to the next section) the basic concept is you get together with a group of friends, coworkers, family members, etc., pick a sport (football seems to be the most popular/easiest), and form a...
Is all Attention Really the Same?
Today, I wanted to highlight an article I read in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis that was published earlier this year by Harper and associates. The three studies in the article take a deeper look into three different types of attention (praise, physical...
What in the world? Pandemic lessons for ABA service delivery
With the world shutting down due to a global pandemic last year, many families and service providers of individuals with developmental disabilities in the United States have been learning to navigate the new world of modern technology in order to continue providing...
Traveling with Safety as a Priority
According to TSA, on March 28th, 2021, 1,574,228 traveled within The United States of America. This is the busiest travel day since the Coronavirus Pandemic started in 2020. This is 1,394,226 more travelers than there were on March 28th, 2020. Although the feeling of...
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