NETwork Interventions Blog

The field of Behaviour Analysis is new for the majority of people. It is completely normal and understandable that you will not know the terms being thrown at you. If the NETwork team walked onto a building site, we would be lost and have a million questions as well, so let us share with you our expertise in Behaviour Analysis and help you learn how to define the following terms: Read more...

Your observation and assessments are complete- Now what? Next you will have a consultation evaluation, where we come to your home and teach you the programmes that have been created specifically for your child, but what can you do in the mean time? Read more...

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Analyzing and Removing Barriers that Impede Language Acquisition. Read more...

Analyzing and Removing Barriers that Impede Language Acquisition.
Presented by Mark Sundberg on August 2^nd at the Pennsylvania State National Autism Conference.

Impaired Verbal Behaviour
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Below is a portion of my notes from Mark Sundberg's presentation. I will be posting these notes in chunks through out the week, as there was a lot of great information.

Analyzing and Removing Barriers that Impede Language Acquisition
Presented by Mark Sundberg on August 2^nd at the Pennsylvania State National Autism Conference Read more...

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The terms “inappropriate... challenging... difficult... problem etc” are often used to describe behaviour that we (parents/society/peers) deem to be unacceptable. The debate around who defines and enforces these parameters is too big to fit into this blog space, even in three parts, so for the sake of time and space we must accept the use of terms such as the above and turn our attention to the practicalities, how do we deal with these behaviours? Read more...

The use of prompting in a good ABA program is essential. Prompting refers to an additional stimulus that raises the probability of a correct response. This additional stimulus / prompt is eventually faded out. Read more...