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How to Investigate Stalled or Unstable Shaping Performance
Investigate stalled shaping through response definitions, access, health, opportunity quality, step size, reinforcement, prompts, integrity, and client experience.
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How to Evaluate Shaping Step Size and Criterion Timing
Evaluate shaping step size and timing using response distributions, attainment, latency, errors, exposure, access, effort, client feedback, and decision rules.
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How to Audit Differential Reinforcement During Shaping
Audit differential reinforcement during shaping using active criteria, due consequences, delivery, delay, quality, magnitude, earlier responses, access, and drift.
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How to Measure Shaping Progress Across Criterion Changes
Measure shaping progress across criterion changes with response distributions, opportunities, reinforcement, prompts, transition dates, experience, and limits.
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How to Build an Observable Shaping Criterion Sequence
Build an observable shaping criterion sequence with current, intermediate, and terminal responses, reinforcement, advancement, rollback, access, and authority.
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How to Establish a Starting Approximation From Baseline
Establish a starting shaping approximation from representative baseline, response distributions, supports, access, prompts, reinforcement history, and client input.
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How to Define and Measure a Shaping Response Dimension
Define a shaping response dimension with observable boundaries, units, precision, opportunities, accepted variation, access, safety, agreement, and review rules.
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How to Define a Shaping-Performance Assessment Question
Define a shaping-performance assessment question using the person's goal, response dimension, approximations, reinforcement, access, evidence, and limits.
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How to Document Prompt and Stimulus-Control Transfer Evidence
Document prompt and stimulus-control transfer using natural cues, prompt levels, latency, fading, independent probes, integrity, access, experience, and limits.
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How to Reassess Prompt Performance After Access or Task Changes
Reassess prompt performance after changes in cues, materials, language, AAC, motor or sensory access, health, effort, setting, partner, task, timing, or preference.
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How to Detect Partner and Timing Control in Prompt Data
Detect partner and timing control by auditing identity, gaze, voice, movement, cadence, prompt latency, order, correction history, layout, access, and probes.
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How to Evaluate Time-Delay Prompting Outcomes
Evaluate time-delay prompting using cues, delay phases, accessible responses, prompt delivery, errors, resets, exposure, integrity, burden, and transfer evidence.
