Step 1.5 Establish goals and criteria
Now that the team and family have identified skills or behaviors and routines, they determine the criteria that will be used to evaluate whether their use of negative reinforcement is effective.
First, the team and family double check that the outcome is still appropriate given the baseline data collected. If it is not, the outcome is revised as described in the first step.
EXAMPLE
During the span of dinner, Aiden will sit in his seat for at least 5 minutes and finish at least 5 bites of food before leaving the table for 4 out of 5 consecutive weekday dinners.
In Aiden’s outcome there are multiple, clear criteria by which to measure success:
- duration of sitting at the table
- number of bites taken
- across specific number of days