Verbal Behavior Resources:  Basic Skill Sets / Object Sort

This page provides resources to support the implementation of verbal behavior for students with autism or
other complex needs who present limited or absent tact (labeling) and mand (requesting) repertoires. These resources will cover conceptual skills, protocols, and methods to teach early social interaction that is necessary to establish basic skill sets for such students.

***We would like to give special thanks to PaTTAN.net, Mike Miklos and Amiris DiPuglia for giving us permission to share these materials with Educators in Kansas.

Classroom Organization:

• Early Learner Teacher Planning Form
• Setting Up the Classroom Environment
• Procedures for Developing Wall Schedules
• Object Sort Organization and Guidelines
• Object Sort Fidelity Checklist
• Sample Wall Chart for Object Sort
• Active and Done Labels

Preference/Reinforcer Assessments:

• Direct Preference Assessment Information Sheet
• Indirect Preference Assessment Information Sheet
• Reinforcement Attributes List
• Free Operant Preference Assessment
• Paired Choice - Six Item Preference Assessment
• Multiple Stimulus Preference Assessment
• Preference Assessment Observation
• Reinforcer Assessment Form
• Possible Reinforcers
• Items to Condition for Reinforcement

Assessment Data Sheets:

• Approach Data Sheet
• Context Controlled Responses Across Items Assessment
• Observational and Attending Response Data
• Assessing Motor Imitation with Objects
• Data-based Decision-Making Poster
• Activities of Daily Living - Targets to probe

Programming:

• Teacher Planning Form for Early Learners
• 9 Effective Teaching Procedures
• Response Interruption and Redirection (RIRD)
• Guidelines for Teaching Students with Low Variable Ratio (VR)
• Material / Object Sort Procedural Fidelity Checklist
• Pairing:
  • Tips for Pairing
  • Pairing Procedures
  • Pairing with Reinforcement to Intensive Teaching
  • Pairing Infographic
  • Pairing with Reinforcement Treatment Fidelity Checklist
  • Pairing Data Sheet
• Giving Up Reinforcers:  Protocol, Data Sheet, Skills Tracking Sheet
• Wait:  Protocol, Data Sheet, Skills Tracking Sheet, Wall Poster
• Transition Interruption:  Protocol, Data Sheet, Skills Tracking Sheet, Wall Poster
• Come Here:  Protocol
• Walk with Me:  Protocol
• Accepting No:  Protocol, Data Sheet, Wall Poster
• Ready Hands:  Protocol
• Sit at Table: Protocol

• Mand

• Visual Perceptual/Match to Sample:
  • Skill Tracking Sheet - Match to Sample for Early Learners
• Echoics:
  • Echoic Protocol
  • Echoic Protocol Table
• Motor Imitation:
  • Guidelines for Teaching Motor Imitation Skills
  • Skill Tracking Sheet - Motor Imitation with Objects
  • Skill Tracking Sheet - Motor Imitation, Actions
• Listener Responding (LR)
  • LR Actions Protocol
  • Skill Tracking Sheet - Follow Instructions in Context

Program Book:

• Program Book Procedural Fidelity Checklist
• Skill Tracking Sheet - Blank
• Cumulative Monthly Graphs - Blank
• 2022-2025 Monthly Graphs with Weekends
• Tabs for Basic Skills Programming and Transition to Card Sort

Generalization and Natural Environment Training (NET):

• NET Learner Profile and Target Skills
• NET Lesson Plans and Data on Verbal Operants
• NET Play Data
• NET Data Sheet with Specific Targets
• NET Group Instruction Planning Form
• NET Working Walk Plan Template
• Natural Environment Training (NET) for Older Students
• Natural Environment Training (NET) for Younger Students
• Seven Strategies to Promote Generalization

Training Resources:

• Implementation Guide

• Administrator Look Fors

• BST Library

• Early Learner Webinars

• Establishing Basic Skill Sets Online Modules

• Train the Trainer Plan to Fade Support

• Training Pathways

• Video Showcase List

Additional Resources:

Assessments:  

• The Behavioral Language Assessment Form

Videos:

• Object Sort Implementation and Run Through (4:40 minutes)

• Object Sort Run Through (3:45 minutes)

• Pairing Video (14:50 minutes)

• Echoic Target (0:22 seconds)

• Imitation (0:20 seconds)

• Imitation Error Correction (0:26 seconds)

• Errorless Teaching Match-To-Sample Target (0:23 seconds)

• Errorless Teaching Match-to-Sample with Error Correction (0:42 seconds)

• Listener Response (LR) Action (0:22 seconds)

• Error Correction for LR Action 0:25 seconds)

• Listener Response Body Part (0:25 seconds)

• Error Correction for LR Body Part 1 (0:21 seconds)

• Error Correction for LR Body Part 2 (0:27 seconds)

• LR Picture in Field (0:26 seconds)

• Error Correction for LR Picture in Field (0:29 seconds)

Websites:

• Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN)

• Pyramid Educational Consultants (PECS)

Webinars:

• Early Learner Webinar Inventory