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What Counts as One Discrete Trial in ABA?
Learn how one discrete trial in ABA is defined through a cue, response window, response, consequence, boundary, prompts, errors, invalid events, and denominator.
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Family guide
Why Might an ABA Team Use Discrete-Trial Teaching?
Learn why ABA may use discrete-trial teaching, which skills may fit, and what families can ask about trials, access, alternatives, probes, burden, and review.
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When Should an ABA Modeling Plan Change or Fade?
Learn when to change an ABA modeling plan because of access, flat progress, distress, prompt dependence, preference, setting changes, examples, or maintenance.
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How Should ABA Modeling Data Be Reported?
Learn how ABA modeling data separates model type, access, opportunities, components, added prompts, withdrawal, fidelity, independent probes, and maintenance.
Family guide
Can ABA Model AAC Without Authoring the Message?
Learn how partners can model AAC without authoring the message by using a separate system, wait time, accessible backups, clear outcomes, and authorship data.
Family guide
What Safeguards Apply to Video Self-Modeling in ABA?
Learn how video self-modeling safeguards address consent, assent, editing accuracy, dignity, selection bias, storage, reuse, withdrawal, and interpretation.
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What Privacy Rules Matter for ABA Video Modeling?
Review ABA video modeling privacy across recording authority, purpose, people shown, storage, access, retention, reuse, deletion, security, and alternatives.
Family guide
Can a Client Decline Peer Modeling in ABA?
Learn how clients and peers can decline peer modeling in ABA and how teams protect privacy, communication, voluntary participation, alternatives, and documentation.
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Does Watching an ABA Model Count as Independent Performance?
Learn why modeling and independent performance need separate data, including observation, modeled attempts, added prompts, natural examples, probes, and maintenance.
Family guide
Can a Client Choose Who Models an ABA Skill?
Learn how a client can choose an ABA model while teams consider competence, cultural fit, peer choice, privacy, voluntary participation, and workable alternatives.
Family guide
Should ABA Use Live or Video Modeling?
Compare live or video modeling in ABA by adaptability, consistency, replay, camera view, privacy, access, client preference, data, and generalization needs.
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How Can Families Tell Whether an ABA Model Is Accessible?
Learn how families can review whether an ABA model is accessible across vision, hearing, language, pace, camera view, materials, response forms, and setting.
