Episode 310 - PIctorial and Video Preference Assessments

ABA Inside Track

Robert Parry-Cruwys

Behavioralscience, Education, Appliedbehavioranalysis, Autism, Social Sciences, Aba, Science, Specialeducation

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Since time immemorial BCBAs have looked at their seven-item array of candies and asked, “Why can’t I do a preference assessment with huge items or unavailable activities?” Well, now you can with pictorial and/or video-based preference assessments! But don’t take my word for it. Or, do take my word for it, but my word paired with the word of all the research on the subject. And if you’re already using this technology in your preference assessments, shouldn’t you better double-check that you’re actually following the evidence-based guidelines. Or did you just assume that the picture of hanging out with friends playing on the iPad must be equivalent to the real thing?

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Articles discussed this episode:

Heinicke, M.R., Carr, J.E., Pence, S.T., Zias, D.R., Valentino, A.L., & Falligant, J.M. (2016). Assessing the efficacy of pictorial preference assessments for children with developmental disabilities. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 49, 848-868. doi: 10.1002/jaba.342

Brodhead, M.T., Al-Dubayan, M.N., Mates, M., Abel, E.A., & Brouwers, L. (2016). An evaluation of a brief video-based multiple-stimulus without replacement preference assessment. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 9, 160-164. doi: 10.1007/s40617-015-0081-0

Wolfe, K., Kunnavatana, S.S., & Shoemaker, A.M. (2018). An investigation of a video-based preference assessment of social interactions. Behavior Modification, 42, 729-746. doi: 10.1177/0145445517731062

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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.
0:19.6	I'm your host, Robert Perry Cruz.
0:21.9	And with me, as always, are my fabulous co-hosts.
0:25.2	Hey, Rob, it's me, Diana Perry Cruz.
0:27.3	And it's me jacking up, Perry Cruz.
0:31.6	Oh, boy.
0:32.5	We're excited to be here.
0:33.9	We're excited to be here.
0:34.7	So if you're listening to this, we're in the midst of, you know, snow.
0:38.3	There's just so much snow on the ground. Are we recording this in December? No, it's April. Yet there's a lot of snow today.
0:45.6	What a lot of fun. If you're listening to this, it will be May. Yes. It's going to be May. Yeah, it's going to be May. There better not be snow on the ground, but I was assuming I woke up this morning with this great plan.
0:56.3	It's going to go.
0:57.3	It's going to go to free record store.
0:58.7	Not free record store day.
0:59.7	You pay for the records, but it's record store day, this place in Worcester.
1:03.1	And then I was going to come back and, you know, start getting out people to their activities.
1:08.9	And it's going to be great. And instead, I woke up to, like, four inches of snow in the driveway.
1:14.3	There was a lot of snow.
1:15.4	It was a lot of snow.
1:16.3	Yeah.
1:16.5	The weather app said seven inches.
1:19.5	Yeah.
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