Category: Tools & Concepts and Strategies

Taking Time into Account: The Periodic Treatment Design

November 17, 2016June 13, 2017

The Periodic Treatment Design reconceptualizes the way that a is often used. One of the basic tenets of a behavioral therapy is that treatment is frequently applied (e.g., on an hourly or daily basis), so that the intervening non-treatment times are short and roughly equal between treatments. In speech-language therapy, many clients are seen once or twice a week for relatively short periods of time.

Percentage Scores

January 23, 2015September 9, 2019

From Wikipedia: A percentage is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, “%”, or the abbreviation “pct.” The same number can be represented as a proportion (i.e., 58% = .58). Both frequency and proportion scores will be used here.

Working with Multiple Cue Levels

July 24, 2014May 5, 2017

Jeff Higginbotham, PhD, CCC/SP Jennifer Rumfola, MA, CCC/SP Nicole Weber, MA, CCC/SP SUNY at Buffalo

An important part of many therapy regimens is to provide the client with of varying levels of assistance (e.g., to model, remind, signal) to support the teaching of a particular skill. The client’s responsiveness to these “cues” are often recorded alongside their independent performance.