7 Steps For Gaining Instructional Control in Applied Behavior Analysis

[@jasminel.martinez5864]

Lauren does a great job breaking down and explaining each step so it's easily understandable.

[@JessicaSilva-tv3rn]

Escape extinction has been something I have implemented into the classroom I am working in this year. By applying this behavior analytic principal and training all staff within the classroom to execute this properly, we have been able to reduce student outbursts and decrease tantrums. I really enjoyed this video and the breakdown of gaining instructional control.

[@lukereichert726]

Awesome video explaining instructional control! Very helpful.

[@meredithwhite2410]

The 7 steps absolutely do not eliminate an “extinction burst”, but it does lessen and reduce the duration. It is misleading to say that it avoids an extinction burst bc it does not.

[@hackingbehavioranalysis]

Thank you for your feedback. We really appreciate you taking the time to check out our content. We may be able to update some of our content from this video but very much appreciate your words. Thank you!!

[@erinbertoli306]

Great topic and great video, Lauren!

[@hackingbehavioranalysis]

Thanks for watching!

[@Goldo89marichy]

Thanks 👍❤

[@lukereichert726]

Rachel Philbin

[@hackingbehavioranalysis]

Thanks for the comment. We think she looks more like Captain Marvel but to each their own haha. Thank you and hope to catch another comment of yours on another video!!

[@laworemangal7245]

I would have liked the video better if fewer jargon/synonyms were used and if she would have spoken like a normal conversation rather than a robotic one.

[@mattscott252]

Ashley Pattin

[@mahes2320]

Child is obey and follow instructions take him but child prompt depends going .how to reduce in prompt depends?

[@hackingbehavioranalysis]

Thanks so much for watching our video. It means alot. With all things in ABA we like to look at a systematic approach. Yes, we want compliance, but in a successful independent response there are still prompts that will eventually be faded. Reinforcing approximations, shaping the corrective responses and making sure there are teaching trials for the skill or response desired are key In making independent responding. Again, thank you so much for checking out our videos. Please browse our channel for more. We'd love to hear more comments!!

[@jingischannel]

If you can engage direct instead of reading from a script this would have been a better video. Nevertheless the content was great

[@hackingbehavioranalysis]

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[@doreneshort2610]

Compliance, Control, and Demands is exactly why young people in "schools", based on Industrial Age models, KEEP children from accessing their own intelligence. ABA is but a gross magnification of manipulation. Children who are manipulated, discover or "learn", that learning and connection is about receiving positive or avoiding negative reinforcers. ABA works so well that all these little children become perfect well trained seals who will never feel the pleasure of working on complex dynamic problems where they get to invent their own solutions. Now that the Industrial Age (and the age of B.F. Skinner) is over, our new passion economy - the economy of ideas, and what you can do with them, will not accommodate kids who have learned a bunch of static skills, and how to comply, conform, submit. I fear there will be no world for these ABA trained kids to live in. It makes sense why adults with ASD who graduated from HS, maybe even college, are woefully unemployed. Makes one wonder........ to what end?

[@leakitchener8037]

I had that worry at first. I am a BCBA and I teach students to use ways to communicate their preferences. I do not give them a list of preferences. Sometimes the answer is no bc their preferences would be dangerous. (I had a student who wanted to drive the garbage truck. He was 14 and did not have a driver licenses.) Additionally, I have had to teach them to except no bc somethings are dangerous. Somethings also have to be done a certain way bc that is how a child's family wants them done. That would be true for all children.

[@doreneshort2610]

@@leakitchener8037 In some ways you are making my argument for me. For example, how does a child acquire the ability to self evaluate? You can tell them "no" bc their preference would be dangerous, but that response, and their expected compliance, will not help them develop the nuance to self-evaluate, and self-determine; to assess what is a realistic vs fantasy, what is doable vs undoable. That is bc there is no "answer" to that question. There is no "certain way" "right way" "correct way" when trying to navigate life's decisions. This is also true for all people. All children from their infancy are making their own decisions; testing them out; determining what works and what doesn't; all the while developing a wisdom of their own. Have you ever watched the ingenious ways toddlers bust out of their cribs? But if we keep giving children with autism the "answers"; if we keep "telling" them what to do and how do it; if we invariably "teach" them that problems / solutions have "right" and "wrong" answers, then we will be dooming them to a life of dependency; a life with little wisdom to tell the difference between what is safe and what is not; what is a workable / successful idea and what is not. I'm sure you are already aware of the rampant levels of anxiety and depression amongst people with autism. And we should not be surprised. A life of behavioral control and manipulation has left them woefully unprepared to mange with confidence the uncertain, the unanticipated, and the unknown. There is only one thing we can say for certain about life; life is uncertain. This is my argument. The vary foundations of ABA is based on a false premise - that humans are no different than animals in what motivates learning - that our characteristics of thought, sense of self, self agency, are irrelevant as they are too subjective to be adequately measured in terms of "right" and "wrong" - that the laws of human development somehow do not apply to autism. Yes, sometimes we must say "no" to our children. Yes, sometimes there are "right" and "wrong" answers. But the overwhelming bulk of your life is messy, nuanced, imperfect, ever-changing, and in-flux. And under those conditions the "answers" keep shifting. What worked today, might not work tomorrow. Tell me, how does ABA prepare these kids for THAT reality?

[@edwardkeenan7354]

ABA is far from over but better yet just taking off. ABA does not create seals and that statement misinforms and could only be stated from someone with limited experience and understanding of ABA and how it can be used. Many times ABA teaches repertoires of skills that are functional, social etc that otherwise would not be taught. ABA is not simply used to control kids, they teach kids skills that many times their parents can't even teach. Making, friends, how communicate needs are just couple of examples. Many kids are not ever going to as you said invent their own solutions, and even if they a have that potential they need to learn other skills first before they can even start to do that.

[@edwardkeenan7354]

@@doreneshort2610 We teach evaluation skills , its a skill just like typing opinions that you've heard without experience. You mention no correct way, right way. Yes there is, there might not be one way but there are correct way and we know that because we create goals, processes to hit those goal and have data that shows its working. I'm currently working with a kid on how to make friends. Is there another way, yes. Is this person going to learn the skills by herself, nope she is not. Is my intervention showing her how to acess people and friends? Yes it is. Did she have a say in it? Yes she did. Did the other child I'm working with who likes to disrobe in public, and run into the street need help with decreasing some of those behaviors yes. Did the child work with who like to hit and never use the bathroom in the right place need assistance learning new behaviors yep. We all have. seen kids who have had little to know support, and now they are adults with no skills, engaging in unsafe behaviors etc.