ABA in Practice - Session 2: Completing Intake and Initial Assessments

ABA in Practice Session 2 records Maria’s teaching on intake, initial assessment and preference assessment. It covers family interviews, observation, baseline probes and narrated examples of paired-choice, multiple-stimulus-without-replacement and free-operant assessments.

Presenter credits: Maria Nicolaou.

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Maria, identified as Maria Nicolaou in the catalogue, presents intake as a process of learning about the individual and family. She discusses documentation, caregiver and teacher interviews, observation across settings, and probing existing skills before teaching.

Preference-assessment examples examine item selection, response time, access duration and data recording. The session also introduces echoic-language assessment and social and daily living assessment.

What does this recording cover?

• Intake documentation, family priorities and interviews
• Observation and baseline skill probes
• Paired-choice, multiple-stimulus-without-replacement and free-operant preference assessments
• Defining selection, response time and access duration
• Introductions to echoic-language, social and daily living assessments

Recording context: This session focuses on face-to-face assessment. Virtual intake and telehealth supervision are reserved for the technology session.

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