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Escapes or avoids social situation with child/student

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Communication
Visual supports
Technology aided instruction and intervention
Scripting
Functional communication training
Health and Wellbeing
Cognitive behaviour therapy
Mindfulness
Social Relationships
Peer mediated intervention
Social narratives
Non contingent positive attention
Prompting
Control/choice
Self management
Task sequence
Preferred items/High interest
Mobility or access
Physical access
Adult time
Routine activity
Active teaching of rules
PREVENT
Antecedent based intervention
Alternate schedule of liked/disliked tasks
Change schedule or routine
Pre activity intervention
Choice making
Modified instruction or delivery
Environmental audit
Pre teaching
Modify delivery of instruction or request
Prompting
Time delay
Modify communication
Check in check out
Visual supports
Environmental adjustments
Guided notes
Check and connect
Scheduled breaks
Curriculum and instructional modifications
Task analysis
Reduced task demands
DESIRED
Teach/strengthen desired behaviours or skills that serve the same function as problem behaviour
Discrete trial training
Modelling
Social skills training
Video modelling
Naturalistic intervention
Transfer and generalise
ACCEPTABLE
Teach/strengthen acceptable alternative behaviours or skills that serve the same function as problem behaviour
Discrete trial training
Modelling
Social skills training
Video modelling
Naturalistic intervention
Transfer and generalise​
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CONSEQUENCE
Positive reinforcement
Reinforcement
Non contingent reinforcement
Differential reinforcement
Mystery motivators
Minimise reinforcement for problem behaviour
Response interruption/redirection
Behaviour contract
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Removal of punishment
Behaviour specific praise
Appropriate negative consequences for problem behaviour if neede​d​

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Last updated 02 February 2026