 All right steps in building a good program Right off the bat. I'm going to tell you this is more of an art than it is a science And that kind of contradicts everything we've talked about already and we talked a little bit about this previously but the basic idea is that figuring out what technique to use in what situation for a behavior manager is a Shaping process so it's going to take you a while to figure out what to do and what's your go-to Sort of thing when you've got an escape behavior or when you've got a back talking behavior You know those types of things it depends on how it's maintained it's going to take a while to figure out what to do and some people are just great at this right off the bat Some people are excellent and they can just say hey, this is the behavior that's happening I think I got a great technique to use let's try this Bum-ba-ba-bum and then all and then everything works and they're reinforced for it other people are gonna have to Struggle a little more and make some failures and before they start to have their successes Let's say you're done with the program. You better ask the question did it work? And how do you know In other words capture data All right record follow-up data, you know come back in three months. See if it maintained Call the teacher call the parent. Hey, you having a problem with that behavior anymore Has it been completely under control and the parent might say something like well You know what it happens every now and again, but man, it's been really really effective Okay, cool move on Or maybe you call the parent and they say, you know this kid just has been out of line It didn't work at all. I hate this thing It's okay Well, why don't I get back in there and do a little bit more recording And I'll see if I can help you out a little bit and you actually go and do some recording and you do maybe do another Baseline so to speak this we're really thinking about maintenance here So wouldn't be a baseline, but you're just going back in recording and seeing it how often that behavior is occurring now Compare that to the original baseline and maybe it actually did work at the parents Just you know again focused on the wrong thing not focused on successes What are you gonna do if it didn't work did the behavior fail or did the behavior change plan fail if so you're probably gonna implement something new Again if it did work plan for follow-ups If it if it didn't work, then you're gonna go back and try new techniques and You're gonna keep hammering at this until you get the behavior under control Cost-benefit analysis. What are you gonna get out of it? What's the client gonna get out of it? What are the people in the environment gonna get out of it? Does it benefit folks? Does it not right? Is this gonna cost more than it's worth? Maybe the kids just escaping some math tasks once in a while once in a while Well, you know, is it worth it to pay you $100 an hour or whatever your rates gonna be to get in there and fix the problem Or is this something that can be dealt with in a different way so not just in terms of dollars, but The the work that's gonna be involved for everybody the changes that are gonna happen to the classroom The changes that are gonna have to happen at home. Is it gonna work out if you are successful you need to tell people about it This is what journals are for this is what you know, you write up your results you You talk about these plans at conferences you go to professional meetings and you interact with folks and say Here's what I've done in this situation because you owe it to the scientific community To share your successes with them The idea is this is database decision-making. This is science. It's gonna build on itself You're using other people's research to come up with your stuff Well it to your interventions in your programs Then you have to contribute back to that you ethically owe it to the body of People that are doing this work to give back This is a much like the open-source world. Okay, you open source free software, right? You go and you get the software but you owe it to the community to give back somehow Maybe that's just some software testing. Maybe that's Maybe that's contributing a little bit, you know financially to the to the software development team Who knows but the idea is the same thing here if you are going to use everybody's procedures And you've you're using procedures that have been around for 50 years now So that's 50 years worth of work if you're gonna jump right in and grab those techniques You owe it to give back and the easiest way to give back is share your successes And you know what this doesn't necessarily have to be just at a professional meeting Maybe it can be with family members. Maybe it can be with Friends and you say hey, this is how I solve this problem. You're sharing it. You're passing it on You're you're generating your research and you're giving that information back to everyone that needs it All right, that's that see you soon