Instruction

Priming is an antecedent strategy where relevant information is presented before an activity occurs to increase appropriate responding and reduce challenging behavior.

For Texas educators to support holistic and effective programming for students who are dually identified as an emergent bilingual student and a student receiving special education services.

Error correction is an instructional strategy used to address incorrect responses during skill acquisition.

Verbal redirection is a technique to guide students back to the task at hand when they become distracted or off task.

Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence (A-B-C) data collection serves to identify the antecedents (A) that set the stage for or trigger problem behavior (B) to occur and the consequences (C) that appear to maintain that behavior. Typically, this data is collected over multiple sessions and is used to identify patterns and functions of behavior.

Interval recording involves observing whether a behavior occurs or does not occur during specified time periods and is useful for high-rate behaviors that are difficult to count and/or do not have a clear beginning or end.