IABS 564 - Educational Interventions

This course addresses teaching methods based on established behavioral principles of learning. Emphasis will be placed on assessing skills and designing effective skill-acquisition plans, and describe the factors that contribute to the maintenance and generalization of skills. 

Course Objectives: 

1. Write clear behavioral objectives for socially significant behaviors for increase. 

2. Describe assessments of relative skill strengths and weaknesses

3. Describe a variety of preference and reinforced assessment modalities

4. Use stimulus and respond prompts and fading

5. Use a variety of teaching procedures including modeling, imitation training, shaping, chaining, and discrimination training. 

6. Use evidence based instructional strategies including discrete trial, free-operant and naturalistic teaching arrangements

7. Effectively plan for generalization and maintenance of skills.