
Clinician guide
How to Assess Imitation Across Models, Settings, and Modalities
Assess imitation across people, live and video models, settings, perspectives, materials, language, AAC, supports, and consequences without pooling unlike trials.
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Clinician guide
Assess imitation across people, live and video models, settings, perspectives, materials, language, AAC, supports, and consequences without pooling unlike trials.

Clinician guide
Separate imitation from visual, auditory, motor, sensory, language, AAC, and technology barriers by repairing access and preserving measurement phases.

Clinician guide
Assess observational learning by defining model responses and outcomes, monitoring access, later independent performance, comparisons, and competing explanations.

Clinician guide
Assess generalized imitation by separating trained and novel models, defining novelty, balancing response classes, preserving access, and limiting conclusions.

Clinician guide
Test demonstration control using new responses, model availability, task products, ordinary supports, prompt controls, safe comparisons, and mixed-control limits.

Clinician guide
Measure imitation using eligible opportunities, response windows, latency, dimension-level accuracy, equivalent forms, prompts, invalid trials, and agreement.

Clinician guide
Define an imitation model and response using perspective, action boundaries, essential dimensions, equivalent forms, timing, scoring rules, prompts, and access.

Clinician guide
Define an imitation assessment question using the practical decision, model, matching property, opportunity, access, response window, comparison, and action rules.

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.