Discrete trial teaching uses the three-term contingency (A-B-C) relationship to teach various skills. Each “trial” is a separate attempt to teach a new behavior or reinforce a previously learned behavior.

A form of teaching that is heavily based upon behavioral principles. Students are taught in groups that are made up of students at roughly the same academic level, there is scripted and fast-paced presentation of materials, students respond as a group as well as individually, and there is a very high degree of student-instructor interaction…

To increase the potency of a reinforcer by not delivering it to the individual for a time. For example, to make an edible particularly reinforcing, one might not deliver that edible directly following a meal when the child is full and food may not be a reinforcer. If an individual has non-restricted access to a…

A guiding principle in the definition of behavior. It basically states that anything a dead person can do is not behavior.

A set of rules based on relevant data that allow BCBAs to make decisions about when to change programs or methods.