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RBT Competency Assessment Study Guide

1. The document outlines various assessment tasks for an initial RBT competency assessment, including taking data on behaviors in continuous and discontinuous ways, creating graphs, preference assessments, ABC data collection, discrete trial teaching, naturalistic teaching, chaining, shaping, discrimination training, stimulus control transfer, prompting, and token systems. 2. It also covers professionalism requirements like taking objective session notes, maintaining client dignity and professional boundaries, describing RBT supervision standards, and situations that require clinical direction. 3. Tasks involve role plays and demonstrations with a client to assess competency in skills like preference assessments, discrete trial teaching, and emergency procedures.

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Topics covered

  • Continuous measurement,
  • Frequency recording,
  • Duration measurement,
  • Latency,
  • Inter-response time,
  • Partial interval,
  • Momentary time sampling,
  • Data recording,
  • Graphing data,
  • Paired stimulus
91% found this document useful (11 votes)
28K views3 pages

RBT Competency Assessment Study Guide

1. The document outlines various assessment tasks for an initial RBT competency assessment, including taking data on behaviors in continuous and discontinuous ways, creating graphs, preference assessments, ABC data collection, discrete trial teaching, naturalistic teaching, chaining, shaping, discrimination training, stimulus control transfer, prompting, and token systems. 2. It also covers professionalism requirements like taking objective session notes, maintaining client dignity and professional boundaries, describing RBT supervision standards, and situations that require clinical direction. 3. Tasks involve role plays and demonstrations with a client to assess competency in skills like preference assessments, discrete trial teaching, and emergency procedures.

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Topics covered

  • Continuous measurement,
  • Frequency recording,
  • Duration measurement,
  • Latency,
  • Inter-response time,
  • Partial interval,
  • Momentary time sampling,
  • Data recording,
  • Graphing data,
  • Paired stimulus
  • Tasks 6-15: Covers tasks related to naturalistic teaching methods, chaining, discrimination training, and stimulus control transfer among others.
  • Tasks 1-5: Details tasks involving continuous and discontinuous measurement, data and graphing skills, and ABC data reporting for initial competency assessment.
  • Tasks 16-20: Includes tasks on professionalism, client dignity, maintenance of boundaries, and maintaining client dignity with special considerations.

RBT Initial Competency Assessment Packet:

    Assessment
Tasks 1-3 type
1 Continuous Measurement: Recording every possible behavioral occurrence With a Client
  Role-Play
 Frequency: Each instance of behavior Interview
o # in a session
 Duration: Length of behavior
o 30 seconds
 Latency: The time between a stimulus & behavior
o Delayed response
 IRT (Inter-Response Time): Time between two successive responses 
 
2 Discontinuous Measurement: With a Client
  Role-Play
 Partial Interval: Whether or not a behavior occurred during an interval of time. Interview
Mark simply on a chart when time is short.
 
 Whole Interval: Observing a client at regular intervals and recording if the
behavior occurred during the ENTIRE interval. Breaking down 1 min to 6 ten
seconds.
 
 Momentary time sampling: When the behavior must be occurring at the end
of the interval to be recorded. Scan the room when the alarm goes off.
 
3 Data and Graphs: Enter data and update graphs. With a Client
  Role-Play
Make a line graph? Interview

Three of tasks 6-15 must be demonstrated with a client.


4 Preference Assessments: Finding out their personal motivator!  
Paired Stimulus: Choose from 2 items
Single Stimulus: "Do you want to play with this?" take away, bring out new toy, repeat.
Multiple Stimulus w/o Replacement: Put out toys, say "pick one" shuffle, say "pick
one" shuffle, repeat, rank.
Free Operant: Fill a room with toys. Sit back, take notes
Eye gaze:
 
5 ABC Data: Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence. Type
Ask to stop using computer. Joe screams NO. Parents count to 10 in stern voice.
 
6 Discrete-Trial Teaching: Straightforward ABC. Which is red? Good. With a Client
Teach a child red. Teach blue. Teach all colors. Use candy or toy as a reward.  Role-Play

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7 Naturalistic Teaching: During other activities, throw in names, colors, questions, With a Client C]
etc. Role-Play
 
Which color do you want? Color a cat or dog? Can you say 'can I have a new
marker?'
 
8 Chaining: Handwashing step by step.  A word one letter at a time. Forwards and With a Client O
backwards training. DOG GOD Role-Play
 
9 Shaping: Rewarding successive approximations. Say ball 'b' to 'ba' 'ball'. Similar With a Client Role-
to teaching Hux to put his toys in the box. Play
 
10 Discrimination Training: Pick 2 from numbers 1-3  With a Client O
  Role-Play
BACLF 4

11 Stimulus Control Transfer: Stop asking, so they do it on their own. Prompt   With a Client
fading and prompt delay.  C] Role-Play
 
12 Prompting: Like a news anchor prompter. Pics & words.   C] With a
Prompt fading: Trace (hand over marker) Trace (slight touch) Trace (no Client Role-
touch). What's your phone number? Take away one number at a time. Play
  O With a
Prompt Delay: Hold toy. Say I want toy. They say it they get it. Next wait a Client
little longer to see if they say it first. Praise them if they do. Repeat. O Role-Play
 
13 Token Systems: Stickers. All stickers gets tablet.    
 
14 Crisis/Emergency: Implement crisis/emergency procedures according to   O With a
protocol. Client O Role-
  Play
15 Demonstrate one of the below tasks:   C] With a
  Client
 
Antecedent Interventions: Preventing them from engaging in problem
behavior. Get them used to doing very simple fun tasks (moose face) so
you can take tablet. First this then ball. We're going to talk a few minutes.
Motivating/establishing operations: Being hungry,
Discriminative stimuli: This stimuli is different here. Always getting candy at
GRANDMA's.
 
Or

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Differential Reinforcement:
DRA: Bad behavior alternative. INSTEAD of demanding food, ask for food.
DRO: Reinforce the behavior not happening. A child who does not leave
their dinner seat for 10 minutes gets a reward.
Extinction: Give no response to screaming. No response to Huxley jumping.
 
 
 
 
Professionalism and Requirements
  Tasks 16-20 type
16 Session Notes: Generate objective session notes by describing what occurred during With a Client
sessions. Role-Play
  Interview
Be direct, specific. Use fractions.
 
17 Client Dignity: Provide examples of how to maintain client dignity. Professional O Interview
Boundaries:  
 
Going in a private bathroom when teaching personal tasks. Involve them in their own
care and choices. Let them choose their clothing and express themselves.
 
18 Provide examples of how to maintain professional boundaries: O Interview
 
Do not become their friend. Do not accept gifts over $10. Do not go on expensive
vacations unless they are approved through the board.
19 Supervision Requirements: Describe BACB Supervision Standards for RBTs. O Interview
 
5% of all hours must be supervised per month. Two face-to-face.
 
20 Clinical Direction: Describe at least one situation in which you'd seek clinical direction O Interview
from your supervisor.
 
You were invited on a trip. There are new techniques introduced that you aren't clear
on. A client's caregiver is having concerns with the service such as a certain RBT
showing poor progress.

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