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How to Prepare Accessible Options for an ABA Preference Assessment
Prepare accessible options for an ABA preference assessment by checking recognition, availability, AAC, sensory and motor access, exploration, position, and refusal.
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Clinician guide
How to Select an ABA Preference-Assessment Format
Select an ABA preference-assessment format by matching the question, option properties, client access, removal tolerance, time, setting, burden, and competence.
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How to Gather Client-Nominated Options Before an ABA Preference Assessment
Gather client-nominated options before an ABA preference assessment through accessible communication, exploration, privacy, refusal, and feasibility checks.
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How to Decide Whether a Structured Preference Assessment Is Needed
Decide whether a structured preference assessment is needed by weighing client choice, the clinical decision, uncertainty, burden, access, risk, and alternatives.
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How to Report ABA Functional-Analysis Results Within Tested Conditions
Report ABA functional-analysis results within tested conditions using exposure, differentiation, integrity, stops, missingness, uncertainty, and bounded decisions.
Clinician guide
How to Set Safety and Stop Rules for an ABA Functional Analysis
Set safety and stop rules for an ABA functional analysis using person-specific health, assent, severity, setting, staffing, emergency, and restart criteria.
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How to Plan Consent, Assent, and Access for an ABA Functional Analysis
Plan ABA functional-analysis consent, assent, and access with understandable purpose, procedures, alternatives, risks, roles, privacy, withdrawal, AAC, and rechecks.
Clinician guide
How to Decide Whether Functional Analysis Is Needed in an ABA Assessment
Decide whether functional analysis is needed in an ABA assessment by weighing uncertainty, alternatives, risk, value, competence, consent, access, and readiness.
Clinician guide
How to Interpret Descriptive ABA Assessment Patterns Without Claiming Function
Interpret descriptive ABA assessment patterns with labeled event windows, comparison probabilities, context, measurement quality, alternatives, and bounded language.
Clinician guide
How to Respond When Behavior Does Not Occur During ABA Observation
Respond when behavior does not occur during ABA observation by checking definitions, access, health, supports, coverage, detection, and safe next steps.
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How to Sample Relevant Contexts in an ABA Assessment
Sample relevant contexts in an ABA assessment with defined units, representative settings, people, supports, access, comparison periods, and coverage rules.
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How to Plan Direct ABA Observation Without Creating Avoidable Risk
Plan direct ABA observation with a defined question, natural contexts, consent, assent, access, health and safety gates, ordinary supports, privacy, and stop rules.
