• Activity-Based Intervention
• Cognitive Behavior Management
• Chaining
• Choice-Making
• Contingencies and Contracts
• Differential Reinforcement
• Discrete Trial Instruction
• Extinction
• Home Base
• Pivotal Response Intervention
• Shaping
• Stress Management
• Toilet Training

Differential Reinforcement: Introduction

Differential reinforcement is probably the most fundamental and most important principle in applied behavior analysis (ABA). Interestingly, it is also one of the most misapplied. These lectures will point out why differential reinforcement is basic to understanding ABA, how it is often misapplied, and provide examples of how parents, teachers and others can use it to effectively construct and support learning among students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Lecture Content

• Differential Reinforcement – What Is It?
• Differential Reinforcement – Basic Principles
• Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
• Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behaviors (DRI)
• Differential Reinforcement of Lower/Higher Rates of Behavior (DRL/H)