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[quote=Anonymous]About the chart - the "consequence" isn't supposed to be what they give him as a consequence, but rather what happened as a result of his behavior?  What did he get out of it?

Example:

Behavior:  Child throws plate on floor, then starts screaming and throwing eveyrthing onto floor

Antecedent: (what happened right before this?) - Child requested more cheetos, Mom said, "you may have more cheetos once you taste your grapes."

Consequence:  Child cried for 10 minutes at table.  After that, mother gave cheetos.  Child didn't eat anything but cheetos.

OR (depending on what really happened):  Meal ended because child was so distraught.  Child didn't try grapes.  Also didn't get cheetos.

So you can see that the child instigated a method to get out of grapes, and didnt' have to eat those grapes, right?

I did these charts when children were biting as 18-24 months old (I was a toddler teacher at the time):  Child Y bites Child X.  Antecedent:  Child Y playing with truck.  Child X walks over and pulls it away. Child Y bites.
Consequence:  Child X cries, Child Y gets truckk back.

In this example, you can see that the biting WORKS.  The taker dropped it, the original owner got it back, from a child's POV, it works.  Why change what ain't broken?  Of course, I wanted child to stop biting, I wanted child to say, No, Stop.  Or Mine, give it back.  Or something.  So when I realized that the biting only occurred when an object was taken from the biter, then I could make sure I was always there when he/she had favored objects.  For some kids, their behavior would spiral during transitions, when we were cleaning up to go outside, clenaing up for lunch, etc.  Things were busy, there wasn't a lot of direction, kids were milling about putting stuff away, putting on/off coats, and this was overwhelming for the child.  In that circumstance, I could make sure it was less overwhelming and I had lots of methods I learned.

So the ANTECEDENT is really important - what time of day? what was happening?  What was request, expectation, or whatever that was asked, told, expected of child?  And what did the child get out of the behavior?  Get out of playing piano because of the 10 minute tantrum?  Etc.  [/quote]

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