I'm working with a student and we are working on several behaviors. One of these is that we have been working on increasing his ability to participate and maintain focused during instruction. This has been going well due to the high frequency of reinforcement. But, the main problem now seems to be transitioning from a preferred activity (movie) back to instruction. One thing we have been trying is to try to reinforce his appropriate transitions by immediately transitioning back to a preferred activity after an appropriate transition (these are randomly chosen).
I have been racking my brain to figure out what is reinforcing for this little guy, but being that he is resistant to verbal communications and his reinforcers are limited to movie watching and edibles. I can't figure out how to create an environment for him where I can even start to run his educational goals when I don't have anything reinforcing enough to have him sit and respond for more than a couple minutes.
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Well it seems like you have a found some things that interest your student, however, have you done a preference assessment with him? Also I noticed that you said that the behaviors that are being reinforced have been random. Have you guys tried using an operational definition of which behaviors that should be reinforced to be more consistent? Hopefully this will help.
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