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How an ABA Goal Is Written — and How to Tell a Good One

A useful ABA goal answers five questions. Here's what a real goal looks like, how support fades, and what happens when a goal isn't working.

August 28, 20263 min
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Is Positive Reinforcement Just Bribery? No — and the Difference Matters

A bribe is offered in the moment to stop something already happening. Reinforcement is planned, follows the skill being built, and is deliberately faded.

August 28, 20262 min
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DTT vs. NET: Two Teaching Styles Your Child Will Experience in ABA

DTT teaches new skills in short, structured trials; NET practices them inside real play and routines. Most ABA plans use both — here's how they fit together.

August 19, 20267 min
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Functional Communication Training: Teaching an Easier Way to Be Heard

Functional Communication Training (FCT) teaches a child an easier, clearer way to ask for what a behavior was getting them — a break, help, or attention.

August 19, 20268 min
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Generalization: Why Skills Must Work at Grandma's House Too

Generalization in ABA means a skill works with new people, places, and materials — not just in therapy. See how it's planned, practiced, and kept.

August 19, 20268 min
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Prompting and Prompt Fading: How ABA Builds Independence, Not Dependence

Prompt fading is the planned removal of help as a child gains a skill, so the skill belongs to the child — not the prompt. Here's how ABA plans it.

August 19, 20268 min
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Task Analysis and Chaining: How Big Routines Become Teachable Steps

Task analysis breaks big routines like handwashing into small, teachable steps; chaining links them back together. Forward and backward chaining, explained.

August 19, 20268 min
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What Is Natural Environment Teaching in ABA?

Natural Environment Teaching builds skills inside everyday play and routines instead of at a table. How NET works, when we use it, and why it helps skills stick.

August 18, 20267 min

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