Get to know the jargon.

Doctors and other specialists have their own way of talking. So we’ve put together a glossary of common terms that you might hear or read along the way.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y X

• ABA — Applied Behavior Analysis-the science of behavior.
• ABC Analysis — An analysis tool that tracks Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence relations and identifies trends in behavior based on time, people, location, activity and the events that occur after the behavior.
• Antecedent — A stimulus/event that occurs prior to a behavior. Antecedents can be changed to prevent behavior issues.
• Appropriate/Inappropriate behaviors — Appropriate behaviors include socially accepted means of communication and interacting with the environment and inappropriate behaviors are not acceptable and should be replaced with behaviors that are more adaptive. Appropriate behavior should be reinforced and inappropriate behavior should be extinguished.
• ARD — Admission, Review, Dismissal. Annual school meetings to determine a child’s placement and programing. Can be initiated by parent or school at any time to address concerns.
• Aspergers — TBD
• Autism Spectrum Disorders — TBD
• Behavior — Anything a person says or does.
• Chaining — TBD
• Consequences — A stimulus or event that occurs after a behavior that can increase, decrease, or not effect behavior.
• Data collection — TBD
• Discrete trial training — TBD
• Discrimination training — TBD
• ECC — Early Childhood Center; public school pre-school programs.
• ECI — Early Childhood Intervention
• EIBI — Early Intensive Behavior Interventions
• Extinction/Extinction burst — TBD
• Fading — TBD
• FAPE — Free and Appropriate Public Education
• FBA-Functional Behavior Assessment
• Generalization — TBD
• IEP — Individualized Education Program consisting of specified goals and services that are outlined and reviewed during ARD meeting.
• Instructional control — TBD
• Interventions for challenging behavior — TBD
• Maintenance — TBD
• Mastery — TBD
• Naturalistic/Natural Environment Teaching (NET) — TBD
• OHI — Other Health Impairment
• PDD-NOS — Pervasive Development Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified
• Positive reinforcement— A consequence is delivered after a behavior and the future liklihood of that behavior increases
• PPCD — Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities
• Precision teaching — Fluency based instruction that focuses on rate per minute and accuracy to teach a strong foundation of academic skills.
• Prompting — TBD
• Reinforcers — A stimulus/event is delivered after a behavior and increases that behavior.
• Replacement behaviors — An appropriate behavior that is trained to “replace” an inappropriate behavior and serves the same function.
• Shaping — Reinforcing successive approximations to the target behavior.
• Target behavior — The behavior of interest: targeted for increase/decrease.
• Verbal behavior — Communicative behavior