Collecting and Displaying Data – Essential For Living

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Many non-verbal children are not provided with an alternative method of speaking and participate in instruction or behavior therapy 'solely as a listener'. Others are provided with an alternative method, such as picture exchange or an electronic tablet, that is not portable or requires multiple responses to make simple requests. These methods are often abandoned by the children, resulting in young adults with problem behavior 'when they want to make requests'. Essential for Living will help you select and confirm an alternative, method of speaking that meets the CAFE criteria -- Continuously Available, Frequently used, and Effortless -- and is much less likely to be abandoned later.

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You are certainly free to use your own
method of data collection and data sheets,
but you might find these ‘self-graphing data sheets’
and ‘first opportunity of the day probe data’ useful…

Click on the link below to access and print self-graphing data sheets for all skills in Essential for Living. This link will also provide The Favorite Items and Activities (Preference Assessment) Data Recording Form and The Problem Behavior Direct Observation and Interview Form that can be used with Essential for Living. These data sheets and forms, which were originally constructed in Pages on a Mac, are provided as pdf files, WORD files (for use on a PC or a Mac), and Pages files (for use on a Mac). You are welcome to adjust and use these data sheets and forms as you like.

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