Episode 196 - Interrupted Chain Procedure
ABA Inside Track
Robert Parry-Cruwys
4.7 • 634 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2022
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
"Knock knock. "
"Who's there?"
"The interrupting BCBA."
"Oh, great! I had a question about improving my client's mand repertoire and…"
"INTERRUPTING CHAIN!!!!"
While we love a good joke on the show, the interrupting chain procedure is no laughing matter. Don't believe us? Well, buckle in for our hour-plus discussion of research that will make you think otherwise.
This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU.
Articles discussed this episode:
Somers, A., Sidener, T.M., DeBar, R.M., & Sidener, D.W. (2014). Establishing concurrent mands for items and mands for information about location in children with autism. Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 30, 29-35. doi: 10.1007/s40616-014-0007-x
Carter, M. & Grunsell, J. (2001). The behavior chain interruption strategy: A review of research and discussion of future directions. Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 26, 37-49. doi: 10.2511/rpsd.26.1.37
Roberts-Pennell, D. & Sigafoos, J. (1999). Teaching young children with developmental disabilities to request more play using the behaviour chain interruption strategy. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 12, 100-112. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1999.tb00069.x
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to ABA Inside Track, the podcast. That's like reading in your car, but safer. I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz, and with me as always are my fabulous co-hosts. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey, Rob, it's me, Jackie. |
| 0:29.1 | And it's me, Diana. |
| 0:30.7 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:31.3 | How have you been doing? |
| 0:32.6 | I've been doing so great, except I tried to do something today, and there was a part of that, something that was |
| 0:40.0 | missing. What was missing? What were you trying to do? Why just tell me what you're trying to do? |
| 0:44.8 | I was trying to bake a cake. You're trying to bake a cake, eh? Yeah. And what, so you were missing |
| 0:51.2 | something? Something suddenly was missing? Yeah. Didn't have any eggs or something like that? |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah, I thought I had a whole thing of eggs in the fridge. |
| 0:57.4 | You know, when you look in and you see like the car and you're like, I got so many eggs. |
| 1:02.3 | Guess what? |
| 1:03.4 | There were no eggs? |
| 1:04.3 | Past me. |
| 1:05.0 | Just put it back in the fridge to remind myself that I needed to get more eggs. |
| 1:10.9 | That's a terrible system. |
| 1:12.3 | So, I mean, I guess one of two things could have happened when you saw there were no eggs. |
| 1:15.2 | You could have said, you know, asked someone nearby, hey, are there any eggs? |
| 1:18.5 | Could you find eggs? |
| 1:19.1 | Or you could have just stopped and just sort of looked around. |
| 1:21.9 | Rode the flower in the air. |
| 1:23.2 | Just sort of giving up, walked away, right? |
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