Naturalistic Intervention

Compare intervention data and baseline data to determine the effectiveness of the

intervention

Review and analyze the data on a periodic and agreed upon basis. This helps to determine what the data indicates about progress toward meeting a toddler’s target behavior. Use the data to assess whether the naturalistic intervention is achieving the desired results or if it may need to be modified. Through data analysis, you may discover that the target behavior has been met and that the goal needs to be ramped up to a more complex response.

Summarize the data to make decistions about future planning

For a naturalistic intervention, there are important decision-making points between engagement and use of ABA strategies when the early intervention team has to decide if the engagement strategies are sufficient for eliciting and reinforcing the target behavior. Careful consideration of the data helps the intervention team identify which ABA strategy may work the best to elicit a target behavior. Also, data will be useful in determining if other environmental arrangements are needed or if additional training may be required by members of the intervention team.

Together with the team, you may decide that additional data is needed to gain a better understanding of how to modify a naturalistic intervention.