PS564Unit9GroupAssignment

This assignment assesses the following Course Outcomes:

PS564-3: Integrate function-based strategies to improve personnel performance.

PS564-4: Develop a performance monitoring tool to inform feedback and reinforcement procedures that improve personnel performance.

PC-1.2: Contribute to team goals and objectives through active participation and collaboration.

For this assignment, you will use your knowledge of organizational behavior management-based principles of performance management, supervision, teamwork, and communication to develop a comprehensive 12- to 16-page Performance Management Plan Portfolio to enhance staff/trainee improvement in a given environment. You are an ABA team of professionals working within a system that requires assessment and training to maximize the performance of the staff or stakeholders within that system. Your team has an opportunity to choose a case study to work from to complete this assignment:

Case Study 1: Home Program

Chloe is a 4-year-old little girl diagnosed with a developmental disability that impairs her socialization and communication skills. She has just received approvals for the implementation of a home program for 16 hours per week, which includes both discrete trial training and incidental teaching programs as well as parent training to support Chloes socialization and communication goals, which include functional communication training using a verbal behavior approach. As the BCBA that oversees the program, you are responsible for supervising two registered behavior technicians as well as supporting training for Chloes parents and her grandmother, who frequently babysits Chloe while her parents are at work.

(MY PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT IS MEMBER 5 )

Member 5 Performance Monitoring &

Feedback/Reinforcement

Sections 8 & 9

Responsibilities:

Create performance monitoring tool (Appendix):

o Treatment integrity checklist

o Caregiver fidelity data sheet

In-text:

o Describe how often data will be collected

o Explain graphing and review procedures

Develop feedback system:

o Immediate in-session feedback

o Weekly performance meetings

Develop reinforcement plan:

o Performance-based recognition

o Competency mastery system

o Positive reinforcement for caregiver participation