Summary:
- Limit distractions as much as possible
- Ask other adults what the child likes
- Bring in new materials that the child hasn’t seen yet
- Do a reinforcer probe:
- Toys with lights
- Toys that make sounds
- Sensory input activities: bouncing on a ball, tickles, hugs, swinging, spinning around, bouncing on knee, flipping upside down
- Food
- Bubbles
- Wind-Up Toys
- Toys that change or move (visually)
- Toys with different textures
- Once you have found several:
- Reward at first for proximity (getting closer to what they want) or body orientation (turning their body toward what they want)
- Gradually increase difficulty level of what they have to do to get the reward:
- Look in the general direction
- Looking at object/you
- Reaching for it
- Pointing at it
- Pointing and looking at you
Printable Resource:
Click here to download the Reinforcer Probe Idea List
Products Mentioned:
- Tangle
- Hoberman Sphere
