G.19. Design and evaluate procedures to promote emergent relations and generative performance.

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For BCBAs, clinic owners, supervisors, and caregivers, this post explains how to design procedures that foster emergent relations and generative performance. It emphasizes systematic probing, data-driven decision rules, and an ethical framework to verify emergence rather than assume it. Using a Train–Probe–Interpret–Adjust workflow, it helps you turn ABA data into clear, responsible decisions about when to expand exemplars or provide direct instruction.

B.21. Identify examples of processes that promote emergent relations and generative performance.

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Designed for BCBAs, RBTs, clinic directors, and caregivers, this post clarifies emergent relations and generative performance and explains how a single well-planned teaching sequence can yield multiple untaught skills. It emphasizes testing for emergence—via systematic probes—and turning ABA data into clear, ethical decisions about what a learner can do in real life. You’ll gain practical guidance on processes like stimulus equivalence, multiple-exemplar training, naming, and probing to design efficient, durable, and flexible teaching programs.

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