Nesrhtens…..

Data collection is a central element of early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) for preschool children, as for all other behavior analytic interventions. The collection of trail-by-trail date is just one of the elements to register, and gives useful information on children progress and quality of discrete-trail teaching.

As CBTAonline has released a behavior analytic data collection app, ABC data, for iPhone I have tried this application to collect trail-by-trail data while supervising EIBI programs for children with autism. ABC data has three customizable buttons to tap for occurrence of a response or event; and for collecting trail-by-trail data I named them “C” for correct response, “P” for prompted response and “W” for incorrect response or no response. Then you can tap start for timed data collection. After the session is finished you can email the data for more analysis in an CSV-format.

As the app then provides count, percent and occurrences per minute. You can easily analyze if the difficulties of the tasks are appropriate for the child, ineffective prompting strategies are in place, and if the child is presented with a high enough number of trails (as described by Smith, 1999).

So far I have been collecting this data when consulting the children’s team, but I could be possible to have them collect the data daily and email them to me or another consultant for analyzing and monitoring.

CBTAonling has announced the release of ABC Data Pro, with more functionality. And I´m looking forward to check this out.

Related posts:

1. The use of electronic data collection systems in EIBI for children with autism.
2. Data collection in Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention – part 1
3. Measuring progress in Behavioral Programs