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Pivotal Response Training
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Evaluate the Value
Pivotal Response Treatment
vs
Discrete Trail Training
- Appropriate curriculum content
- Highly supportive teaching environments & generalization strategies
- Predictability & routine
- Functional approach to problems
- Plans for transitions
- Family involvement
- ABA focus on individual areas and behaviors depending upon the child, whereas PRT focus on pivotal developmental areas, specifically; motivation, response to multiple cues, self management, and initiation of social interactions.
- PRT is loosely structured, unlike Discrete Trial Training (DTT) and is naturalistic. This means that the treatment occurs in a natural setting, usually the child's home or school, and it uses naturally occurring reinforcements.
- Where DTT typically uses extrinsic reinforcements, PRT relies on intrinsic reinforcements.
- PRT is child directed, where DTT is teacher/therapist directed.
What does a PRT session look like?
Practice
What is Pivotal
Response Training (PRT)?
- Find a positive, fun activity that the child is interested in (i.e.; blowing bubbles).
- Prompt the child for a response so that the teacher can evoke the desired behavior (i.e.; stop blowing the bubbles, and then ask them “bubbles?”).
- If the child gives the desired response – “bubbles!” – then blow more bubbles (positive reinforcement).
- If the child does not give the desired response (i.e.; no answer), then ask them again “bubbles?” until you achieve the desired behavior.
- The instructor should not give the child the desired behavior (blow bubbles) unless the child correctly responds to the stimulus (“bubbles!”)
In small groups of 2 or 3, take turns being the adult and the child during a PRT session using stickers or another preferred activity.
- Naturalistic intervention strategy developed for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Hopes to produce generalized improvements in sociability, communication, behavior, and academics; as well as, relieve individuals from disruptive self-stimulatory behaviors.
Developmental Target Areas
- Stems from the Behavioral Theory, and targets behaviors learned at pivotal milestones in a child's development
- Social initiation
- Motivation
- Self-management
- Responsiveness to multiple cues
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