What the AUTISM?!20 Jan 2021

ABA 101 Part 2

What are the 4 main functions of behavior:

Escape
Access to Tangible (activity, object, anything)
Attention
Automatic (behaviors that you engage in because the specific internal sensation/feeling that you get feels good)

Remember, a behavior is only a behavior when 1. The action is measurable and observable 2. Passes the dead man’s test. These are things that we reviewed last week in episode 6, so make sure to take a listen if you missed last week’s episode!

So let’s start talking about autism. How does the identification of the functions of behavior help in treating those with autism? When children engage in socially inappropriate behaviors such as aggression and self-injurious behaviors...if we do not understand why the child is engaging in these behaviors, we can’t properly treat the behavior. This results in a treatment program that will never get to the root of the problem.

We also review a research article that was published in 2018 titled "The Big Four." The purpose of this article is to suggest that by adding prevention practices to early intervention guidelines for problem behavior, this would increase the effectiveness of a treatment. The article talks about how understanding the core functions that produce problem behavior teaches us how to arrange environments and how to teach skills that would prevent problems from occurring from the start. I’ll go ahead and link this study on our facebook page, but it’s extremely important that we focus on the reason why a child is engaging in a specific behavior rather than how the child is engaging in the behavior.

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