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Designing Teaching Strategies: An Applied Behavior Analysis Systems Approach (Educational Psychology)

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This text explains EXACTLY how to make the everyday practice of teaching with ABA work BEYOND the one-to-one home program for a single student. It is the most comprehensive extension of "what to do and how to do it" since Cooper, Heron, & Heward's "Applied Behavior Analysis."

What Dr. Greer dubs the "ABA Systems Approach" springs from the university informing comprehensive application of behavior analsyis to schooling settings (CABAS schools). However, the text can also stand indepenent of that special environment; and its contents are immediately applicable to individual practitioners in home and community settings.

Chapters summarize advances in practice and current research in verbal behavior; creating literacy and mathematics curricula for students who need ABA methodology to learn; and how to supervise other professionals in advancing their ABA and research skills.

Especially useful are tables that translate students' performance trouble into potential repertoires that may not be fully taught or reinforcement contingencies that may be lacking; and team actions that would remedy those problems.

Book is very densely written! Provides good material for classroom teachers however it is not easy to follow. More examples would be appreciated. Helps it's being used in my doc. program where the instructor can further explain the concepts.

I needed this book for a class that I was taking. The bookstore at my university ran out of the book. So I ordered it on Amazon. The book was cheaper on Amazon. I wished that I had order all my books at Amazon.

SMART! Nicely written and very clear language. Public school systems could learn alot from this book!