Escape/Avoidance - Antecedent Interventions

Adjust demand difficulty

• • Provide easier work

  • Decrease amount of work

Offer choice

• • Allow the student to choose:

  • Task to complete

  • Sequence of tasks to be completed

  • Materials to use

  • Where to complete task

  • When to complete task

  • With whom to complete task

Increase student preference/interest in activity

• • Incorporate student hobbies/interests into activities

Assure that activities have function or relevance for the student

• • Provide activities with valued outcome

Alter the length of task

• • Shorten activity

  • Provide frequent breaks

Modify mode of task completion

• • Change medium/materials

  • Replace a pencil and paper with a computer

Use behavioral momentum

• • Present easy requests prior to difficult request

Increase predictability

• • Provide cues for upcoming or change in activities (e.g., instructional, visual, auditory)

Modify instructional delivery

• • Use a pleasant tone of voice

  • Adjust demand difficulty

  • Provide easier work

  • Decrease amount of work

Offer choice

Allow the student to choose: Task to complete, Sequence of tasks to be completed, materials to use, where to complete task, when to complete task with whom to complete task

Increase student preference/interest in activity

• • Incorporate student hobbies/interests into activities

Assure that activities have function or relevance for the student

• • Provide activities with valued outcome

Alter the length of task

• • Shorten activity

  • Provide frequent breaks

Modify mode of task completion

• • Change medium/materials

  • Replace a pencil and paper with a computer