For this assignment, you are a board certified behavior analyst who has been consulting with six school districts in your state. You have provided guidance to school psychologists and have conducted FBAs and made recommendations to Individualized Education Program (IEP) teams regarding academic and behavior goals.

Recently, your state school board contacted you to thank you for the work you have been doing in the schools and to ask a favor. The members of the state school board recently read a peer-reviewed research article about the efficacy of training schoolteachers to conduct FBAs. The paper was convincing, and the board would like you to conduct training in not only how to conduct an FBA but also how to implement some basic behavior acquisition and reduction programs based on ABA principles. You agreed to conduct a 2-day workshop and begin preparations for the intensive training.

1. Acquisition Programs: Shaping and Chaining
   1. Define shaping and chaining. (Include the three types of chaining procedures in your discussion.)
   2. need to Create a simple scenario in which a complex behavior can be broken down and trained using one of the chaining methods. Create a task analysis to illustrate the concept.
      1. Using one of the components in the task analysis used for your chaining example, demonstrate how shaping can be used to train that one component.
2. Reduction Programs: Differential Reinforcement
   1. Describe the methods of differential reinforcement of alternative (DRA) behavior; differential reinforcement of other (DRO) behavior; and differential reinforcement of incompatible (DRI) behavior.
      1. need toCreate a scenario in which you illustrate the use of one of the differential reinforcement approaches (DRA; DRO; DRI).
3. Generalization and Maintenance
   1. Define generalization and maintenance.
   2. Explain the importance of programming for generalization and maintenance.
   3. Present three techniques that can be used to program for generalization.