Antecedent Strategies

Antecedent Strategies are interventions staff will do prior to behavior. These strategies are a redesign of the environment and serve the purpose of decreasing motivation to demonstrate problem behavior in order to access attention from or interaction with others.

• Non-contingent access: proactively provide student access to attention from or interaction with others on a routine basis

  • Consider the quality and type of attention or interaction that the student is seeking

  • Consider whether there is a specific individual that the student is seeking attention or interaction from

  • Consider whether the student prefers attention or interaction from others in a particular place (in front of others, privately, etc.)

• Access to competing reinforcers when attention is not available

  • If attention from or interaction with others is not available, consider providing access to other reinforcers or tasks/activities where attention is not as valuable (i.e. technology)

• Enhanced predictability measures: clarify expectations for when student can attention from or interaction with others

  • First, then

  • Visual Schedules

  • Token or "working for" strip

    • *When considering enhanced predictability measures, the response effort, wait time, or required work activities required must meet the student where they are at - must be easily attainable and commensurate with the student's current abilities