EverNotes from a Radical Behaviorist: ABAI Autism Conference 2014: Tiffany Kodak: Instructive Feedback

Instructive Feedback

1. Enhancing Efficiency of Instruction
   
   1. Adding secondary targets to learning trials.
   2. Example
      1. Antecedent: Name the sample when presenting it in matching-to-sample.
      2. Consequent: Descriptive feedback.
         1. Before or during the presentation of the reinforcer.
2. Study (JABA)
   1. Primary Targets: labeling common objects and answering questions
   2. The kids all echoed the secondary words.
   3. And instructive feedback worked very well for three of the four kids.
   4. Also requiring echoing of the secondary target ID without reinforcement may increase the rate of learning the secondary target.
3. Implementing in the classroom.
   1. If you’re using secondary targets, embed frequent probes, so you can detect and replace the learned secondary targets with new targets. 
   2. You can embed secondary targets in teaching play skills by labeling the objects involved during the play instruction.
   3. All secondary targets are verbal and the secondary response learned is expressive identification of objects. 
   4. Interesting and impressive that the kids ID the probe of the secondary target pictures as readily.
      1. Sort of like getting and knowing the correct answer is its own reinforcer.
      2. Also very impressive instructional control over the kids, in fact better than I have when teaching my grad students 
         1. After the fact, they were her own children and not children with autism.
4. RWM: Embarrassing presentation.
   1. I tell my grad students they are dumb asses, if they give descriptive praise to non-verbal kids.
   2. Now Tiffany is making me feel like the the dumbass, by showing that kids do learn from verbal feedback.
      1. But her kids are pretty verbal, have echoic behavior and almost by definition, naming. 
      2. But if the kids don’t have those prerequisites, I think doing descriptive praise is probably still questionable.
         1. And that was still my impression, after I talked to her.
   3. BUT LET ME BE MUCH CLEARER THAN I FEAR I WAS AT THE CONFERENCE, IN NO SENSE AM I SAYING TIFFANY IS A DUMB ASS. AND IN FACT, IF I GAVE EVEN A HINT OF THAT IMPRESSION, THEN I DEFINITELY AM ONE.

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