IDEAS FOR ABA PARENT TRAINING GOALS
Expressive Communication
1. Parent will have childs communication book easily available to child (based on
proximity level of childs progress) at all times.
2. Parent will provide at least 30 trials of echoics to child per day for 14 consecutive
days.
3. Parent will use least to most prompting to help child work on greeting others at least
twice per day for 14 consecutive days.
Receptive Communication
1. When giving child an instruction, parent will gain childs attention by being in close
proximity (within three feet) to child and being in childs line of sight prior to giving
instruction.
2. Parent will repeat instruction only once. If child does not respond appropriately, parent
will implement prompting strategy and restrict access to reinforcement.
3. Parent will provide at least 10 trials of natural environment learning opportunities for
child to tact a stimulus by asking child a question like What is that? while pointing to
an item for 14 days.
Daily Living Skills
1. Parent will provide verbal prompt to child twice per day for child to complete tooth-
brushing and complete prompt hierarchy as identified with behavior analyst as
necessary for 6 out of 7 days for three weeks.
2. Parent will maintain a set scheduled time (ex: 7:00pm) for child to clean up his or her
toys.
3. Parent will post a morning routine visual schedule on childs wall and will give child
verbal and gestural reminder about schedule every morning for 14 days.
Behavior Management
1. Parent will provide positive reinforcement in the form of verbal praise at the assigned
reinforcement ratio when child shares toys with sibling.
2. Parent will use extinction by not allowing child to gain access to preferred item when
tantrum occurs.
3. Parent will offer child two acceptable choices at least five times per day and will follow
through on childs choice.
