
Clinician guide
How to Document Rule-Governed Behavior Evidence and Limits
Document rule-governed behavior using rule provenance, accessible delivery, responses, actual contingencies, social outcomes, prompts, comparisons, and limits.
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Clinician guide
Document rule-governed behavior using rule provenance, accessible delivery, responses, actual contingencies, social outcomes, prompts, comparisons, and limits.

Clinician guide
Reassess rule-governed behavior after context or access changes using rule versions, speakers, settings, language, AAC, timing, outcomes, health, and preference.

Clinician guide
Assess adaptation after rule or contingency changes using versioned rules, outcomes, signals, exposure, feedback, prompts, access, safe conditions, and phase data.

Clinician guide
Compare a rule with actual opportunities and consequences using conditionality, timing, probability, magnitude, quality, exceptions, competing outcomes, and status.

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Use pliance, tracking, and augmenting as hypotheses using social correspondence, rule-environment correspondence, value functions, mixed control, and direct report.

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Measure rule following using a useful outcome, accessible exposure, eligible opportunities, choice, alternatives, refusal, partner response, invalidity, and burden.

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Separate rule following from demonstrations, gestures, prompts, proximity, task features, and direct outcomes using safe variation and mixed-control conclusions.

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Assess rule access through usable language and AAC, timing, examples, questions, recognition, paraphrase, performance, assent, and separate conclusions.

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Document a rule's wording, source, audience, delivery, stated contingency, corrections, correspondence history, social consequences, direct contact, and uncertainty.

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Define a rule-governed behavior question using the rule, source, accessible delivery, response, actual contingencies, history, experience, and action rules.

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Document response variability with response class, dimension, opportunities, raw sequences, prompts, contingency, integrity, access, comparisons, and limits.

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Reassess variability after a task or schedule change by versioning criteria, reinforcement, prompts, partners, materials, access, exposure, and phase decisions.