Category Archives: Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Monitor, Maintain, and Adjust Your Home Program  By now you have learned:  How children learn to take responsibility for their own behavior, How your actions – intentional or otherwise – contribute to that process.  You also have learned … Continue reading →

Review Progress and Adjust Your Program Consider Your Impressions Start your formal appraisal of your program by considering your overall impressions. A few weeks after you have settled in with your program, ask yourself what you think and how you … Continue reading →

  Review Progress and Adjust Your Program (continued) Assess Your Charts When you have several weeks’ worth of experience and charts, begin your first assessment of how far your child has come toward mastering one or more behaviors. Arrange your … Continue reading →

Review Progress and Adjust Your Program (continued) Respond to Faltering Progress As you look over each of the items in your child’s program (as illustrated above), note any items that seem not to be responding as well as expected or … Continue reading →

Review Progress and Adjust Your Program (continued)  Respond to Ongoing Success When you have reached a point that your child has shown success on an item for a prolonged period, your next step is to determine whether the behavior is … Continue reading →

Review Progress and Adjust Your Program (continued)  Fade out reinforcement When your child’s successes appear consistent, prepare for a gradual reduction of reinforcement, a process that will both assess your child’s readiness for independence and allow you to reverse course … Continue reading →

Review Progress and Adjust Your Program (continued)  Respond to your child’s mastery For items that start with few credits, only a step or two of fading may bring you to a level where cutting the number further leaves too little … Continue reading →

Adjust Your Program to Changing Circumstances Fit Your Program to Special Occasions So far I have discussed adjusting your program to meet changing needs. Some other reasons for making modifications in your program warrant separate discussion. Special Days Changes in … Continue reading →

Adjust Your Program to Changing Circumstances (continued) Special Seasons A variation on this sort of change arises during longer alterations in your routine, most commonly with the arrival of school breaks. Adapt your program to vacation behaviors Many parents choose … Continue reading →

Adjust Your Program to Changing Circumstances (continued) How to Discontinue Your Program While the home program is appropriately used in many families well into adolescence, some parents elect to discontinue their structured programs earlier. Should you choose to do so, … Continue reading →