This module describes the ‘ABC’ model of learning, including how factors that occur before and after a behaviour can make that behaviour more or less likely to occur again in the future. This module then discusses how you can use the ABC model to support your child to learn new skills and adaptive behaviours. Specific strategies to support your child’s learning including prompting, step-by-step teaching, the use of visual supports, and positive consequences (often referred to as ‘rewards’) for behaviour, are also discussed. Finally, this module considers the optimal timing for teaching opportunities.
