Use of A Demand Assessment to Identify High-Probability Behaviors Specific to Mealtime: A Strategy to Address Food Selectivity and Refusal is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of home routines, treatment sessions, interdisciplinary consultation, and health-related skill support. In Use of A Demand Assessment to Identify High-Probability Behaviors Specific to Mealtime: A Strategy to Address Food Selectivity and Refusal, for this course, the practical stakes show up in safe, humane intervention that respects health variables and daily-life feasibility, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →The high-probability sequence is a strategy to address behaviors associated with non-compliance that has produced variable results. In the context of pediatric feeding disorders, there appears to be some utility as a means to increase novel foods accepted. However, the current research lacks description of a systematic method in which a high-probability sequence is identified. Therefore, this presentation will review the process to determine high-probability behaviors and the application of the high-probability sequence to target behaviors associated with food selectivity and refusal.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
|---|---|---|
| BACB® | 1 | General |
| COA | 1 | — |
Ben Sarcia joined Verbal Beginnings as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2015. He has served as the Clinical Director of the Healthy Beginnings Behavioral Feeding Program since the program’s inception in 2016. Ben began his experience with the treatment of pediatric feeding disorders at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Autism Resource Center as a graduate student. After completing a master’s degree in clinical psychology, Ben went on to work as a behavior analyst in the Feeding Disorders Continuum at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD. Ben’s research interests include functional analysis of inappropriate mealtime behavior, as well as exploring the long-term outcomes of children treated for food refusal utilizing an applied behavior analytic approach. He is also the father of two boys and enjoys lake trips with his family whenever time allows.
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