Applied Behavior Analysis

This video clip offers a clear example of teaching with acoustical guidance (TAG). TAG, is a procedure that requires instructors to provide a click or other sound when the desired behavior is observed. With this teaching technique, teachers are able to provide brief, immediate feedback to their students. The concept of TAG is behaviorally-based and is applicable for students of all ages and abilities, though initially application was limited to clicker training with animals (Pryor, 1999). The first documented use of TAG for humans was for athletic training of students in 2002 by Theresa and Joan Orr. In 2003, McKeon and Orr teamed up with Beth Wheeler, an owner of a dance studio located in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It was at this studio where TAG was first successfully applied and accepted by an entire organization as the primary teach methodology. Though relatively new, TAG has been effectively applied to compliance training (Ueda, 2006); teaching typing skills (Rosenblum, 2006) and social skills (Winkle, 2007), including eye contact (Libby, Weiss, and Libcon, 2007), as well as teaching receptive responses (Madden and Hansen, 2006) and imitation skills (Gutierrez, 2007). This video clip will provide an example of "tagging" a discrete skill. This procedure affords individuals the opportunity to have an acoustical marker indicate the precise moment they've performed the "tag point" accurately.

Posted by Behaviorbabe on March 10, 2012 at 1:29 PM

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