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Not Everything Happens on a Screen
Hybrid activities with and without a tablet: combining materials, recording what happens, and studying transfer without confusing data with conclusions.
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How matching works 7 min read For: Instructors
Conditional discrimination: why the same card can be right or wrong
Understand conditional discrimination with illustrated examples: what the sample changes, how it differs from simple discrimination, and what to check.
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Teaching without errors 7 min read
Extinction in ABA: what happens when a behavior stops working
What extinction means in ABA, why the behavior gets worse before it improves, the three ways it goes wrong, and when it should not be used alone.
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Reading the data 7 min read For: Instructors
Single-case design: how one learner can answer a research question
How single-case designs work: each learner is their own control, the common designs and what each one can conclude, and what a graph alone cannot settle.
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Derived relations 6 min read For: Instructors
Verbal behavior in ABA: why the same word is four different skills
Skinner's classification of verbal behavior by function: mand, tact, echoic and intraverbal, and why teaching one does not produce the others.
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What Interlaza is 6 min read For: Instructors
Seven questions to ask before choosing an ABA teaching app
A buyer's checklist for instructors: the seven questions that separate a tool whose data you can defend from one that only looks busy.
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Teaching without errors 7 min read
Functional communication training: teaching the request that replaces the behavior
How functional communication training works: finding what a behavior achieves, teaching a request that achieves the same, and the two mistakes that undo it.
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- Shaping: building a behavior that does not exist yet Teaching without errors 6 min read
- ABA therapy activities: what to actually do with the ten minutes you have Teaching without errors 6 min read
- Games for autistic children: which ones teach and which only pass the time Teaching without errors 4 min read
- Generalization: the check that shows where a skill actually holds Reading the data 5 min read
- The mand: teaching a child to ask for what they want Teaching without errors 5 min read
- Natural environment teaching: the same teaching, moved into the day Teaching without errors 4 min read
- Pairing: earning the child's willingness before you teach anything Sessions in practice 5 min read
- Pictograms and autism: when a drawing helps and when a photograph is better How matching works 6 min read
- Positive reinforcement, properly understood: the effect defines it, not the intent Teaching without errors 5 min read
- The tact: naming the world, and why it is not the same as asking for it Teaching without errors 5 min read
- Task analysis and chaining: teaching a routine one step at a time Teaching without errors 6 min read
- The TEACCH method: what structured teaching is, and what it is not Teaching without errors 6 min read
- Teaching materials for autistic children: what you actually need Teaching without errors 5 min read
- The token economy, step by step: when it helps and when it gets in the way Teaching without errors 5 min read
- Visual schedules for autism: when they help, and when they just decorate the wall Teaching without errors 6 min read
- Autism and bilingualism: what the evidence says — and what it does not Derived relations 5 min read
- An Interlaza activity that asks the child for nothing Teaching without errors 4 min read
- When a child stalls, the first question is not about the child Teaching without errors 11 min read
- ABA data collection methods: which measure fits which behavior Reading the data 5 min read
- ABA therapy at home: what families can actually do between sessions Sessions in practice 5 min read
- Discrete trial training (DTT): the five-part structure, and where it goes wrong Teaching without errors 7 min read
- What does a BCBA do? The credential, the day-to-day job, and what families can expect Teaching without errors 5 min read
- Can you trust your own data? The three checks that decide Reading the data 9 min read
- 95% of What? The Question a Percentage Cannot Answer Reading the data 12 min read
- Relational frame theory in practice: the frames, the cues, and how to teach them Derived relations 12 min read
- Two Simple Tasks, Two Different Worlds: Why 'Easy' Is Not One Thing How matching works 10 min read
- Errorless teaching and the ABA prompt hierarchy: fading and transferring stimulus control Teaching without errors 12 min read
- Repetition Is Not Relation: How INTERLAZA Measures Whether a Child Has Learned How matching works 11 min read
- Stimulus equivalence: how learners derive relations you never taught Derived relations 11 min read
- Looking at the screen is not the same as paying attention Reading the data 4 min read
- Is the tablet session ready for my child? Sessions in practice 3 min read
- When progress stalls, shorten the distance from signal to decision Adapting to the child 5 min read
- Errorless learning: what it is and why it works Teaching without errors 6 min read
- Matching activities for children with autism: where to start How matching works 5 min read
- How to teach colors and shapes to a child with autism Teaching without errors 6 min read
- How to teach vocabulary to a child with autism using visual supports Teaching without errors 6 min read
- Ten well-spent minutes: what a home session with Interlaza looks like Sessions in practice 5 min read
- Home and session can work together without becoming the same place Sessions in practice 4 min read
- Beyond the tablet: teaching, practice and observation in one record Sessions in practice 5 min read
- A criterion was reached. But was it learned? Reading the data 4 min read
- Match to sample: how it works and the relations it trains How matching works 12 min read
- Why Interlaza: rigorous enough for an Instructor, clear enough for a family What Interlaza is 4 min read
- The Community Store: reuse good work without outsourcing judgment What Interlaza is 4 min read
- How BKT helps Interlaza pace practice — without declaring learning Adapting to the child 5 min read
- From literature to session: the ideas Interlaza uses — and the limits it keeps What Interlaza is 5 min read
- Your first useful session in Interlaza: a guide for Instructors Sessions in practice 4 min read
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