Interventions

Instruction on management or control of cognitive processes that lead to changes in behavioral, social, or academic behavior.

A systematic approach to teaching using a sequenced instructional package with scripted protocols or lessons. It emphasizes teacher and student dialogue through choral and independent student responses and employs systematic and explicit error corrections to promote mastery and generalization.

Instructional approach with massed or repeated trials with each trial consisting of the teacher’s instruction/presentation, the child’s response, a carefully planned consequence, and a pause prior to presenting the next instruction

A collection of techniques and strategies that are embedded in typical activities and/or routines in which the learner participates to naturally promote, support, and encourage target skills/behaviors

Parent delivery of an intervention to their child that promotes their social communication or other skills or decreases their challenging behavior.

Intervention in which peers directly promote autistic children’s social interactions and/or other individual learning goals, or the teacher/ other adult organizes the social context (e.g. play groups, social network groups, recess) and when necessary provides support (e.g., prompts, reinforcement) to the autistic children and their peer to engage in social interactions

*PBII is a reconceptualized category that now includes adult-mediated interventions with peers in addition to peer-mediated interventions.

The application of a consequence following a learner’s use of a response or skills that increases the likelihood that the learner will use the response/skills in the future.

Interventions that target a person’s ability to integrate sensory information (visual, auditory, tactile, proprioceptive, and vestibular) from their body and environment in order to respond using organized and adaptive behavior

Group or individual instruction designed to teach learners ways to appropriately and successfully participate in their interactions with others.

Instruction or intervention in which technology is the central feature the technology is specifically designed or employed to support the learning or performance of a behavior or skill for the learner.

A practice used to systematically fade the use of prompts during instructional activities by using a brief delay between the initial instruction and any additional instructions or prompts.

A video-recorded demonstration of the targeted behavior or skill shown to the learner to assist learning in or engaging in a desired behavior or skill

A visual display that supports the learner engaging in a desired behavior or skills independent of additional prompts.