Part 1: Advanced Considerations and Creating an Action Plan
In this first part of parenting course 2, Robert
- briefly reviews the 7 Steps to Earning Instructional Control
- teaches participants some important advanced considerations related to following through with step 7 including a focus on children who in extinction become highly destructive, aggressive, self-injurious, or self-stimulating
- introduces the Discrete Trial Teaching Method
- teachings participants how to do a Reinforcer Assessment
- teaches participants how to create their own Action Plan that supports the use of the 7 steps in their daily interactions with examples focusing on 3 types of children.
- Young Children
- Older Children and Teens
- Children with Special Needs
Part 2: Daily Schedules and The Token Economy
In this second part of parenting course 2, participants will learn how to…
- Schedule their day by breaking it into sections and
- creating a clearly defined list of goals for each section
- identifying all forms of possible reinforcement available in each section
- and ordering the sections so that reinforcement is always available to follow positive behavior
- Determine if a token economy will be a necessary part of their plan and if so learn how to…
- choose appropriate tokens
- incorporate choice into the plan
- create a token “Store”
- follow basic token economy guidelines
- incorporate some of Robert’s special “tricks of the trade”
- and use alternatives to taking tokens away
- Course 2 culminates with the process of combining your daily schedule with your Token Economy into a cohesive daily behavior plan.
