Reflection piece n. 14Summary The topic of today's readings was Language training in a natural environment. One of the readings, Putting It All Together, provided an informative description of how important it is to implement ABA/BV in the natural environment during therapy sessions and the role parents play in their child's progress. It is recommended that parents attend at least an hour of their child's daily therapy sessions so that they can see where the child is at in his or her overall functioning and understand what types of elements and activities the child considers reinforcing so they can then teach their child throughout the day by applying error correction procedures and preventing problematic behaviors from being reinforced. The same reading describes the process of initiating therapy sessions alongside intensive teaching sessions, which is a four-step process that will help your child master the chosen goals. This intensive teaching session, like the VB session, includes mixing easy and difficult elements, mixing and varying operants, and fast pacing...
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