
Clinician guide
How to Evaluate a Lag Schedule Without Assuming Creativity
Evaluate a lag schedule using its history rule, eligible response, reinforcement, prompts, comparison, integrity, access, experience, and generalization limits.
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Clinician guide
Evaluate a lag schedule using its history rule, eligible response, reinforcement, prompts, comparison, integrity, access, experience, and generalization limits.

Clinician guide
Measure unique responses with locked opportunities, response windows, prompts, valid and invalid trials, raw sequences, repeats, cumulative novelty, and exposure.

Clinician guide
Define a functional response class and meaningful variability dimensions across form, sequence, timing, material, partner, setting, message, access, and value.

Clinician guide
Define response variability using a client-priority decision, response class, meaningful dimension, opportunities, comparisons, access, experience, and action rules.

Clinician guide
Document relapse evidence using response classes, phase histories, treatment versions, reinforcement, integrity, access, health, recurrence, experience, and limits.

Clinician guide
Reassess after recurrence by addressing safety, preserving the event, and verifying treatment, integrity, context, reinforcement, access, health, and experience.

Clinician guide
Monitor relapse risk through routine transitions, natural delays, integrity checks, and early signals while protecting communication, assent, rollback, and safety.

Clinician guide
Audit reinforcement and exposure before a relapse claim, with obtained consequences, timing, thinning, interruptions, outside access, partner delivery, and gaps.

Clinician guide
Separate relapse from AAC, sensory, motor, visual, language, technology, material, partner, schedule, pain, illness, sleep, medication, and mobility changes.

Clinician guide
Separate relapse from treatment-integrity failure by versioning the plan and auditing events, prompts, reinforcement, timing, partner actions, access, and repairs.

Clinician guide
Assess renewal using treatment and test contexts, response history, continuing contingencies, recurrence timing, integrity, access, experience, and alternatives.

Clinician guide
Assess resurgence using target and alternative reinforcement histories, the worsening event, recurrence, integrity, access, safety, and competing explanations.