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Pivotal Response Teaching  is an Advanced Behavioral Treatment intervention based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and derived from the work of Drs. Koegel, Schreibman, Dunlap, Horner, Burke and other researchers. PRT was developed as a result of research that showed that in spite of years of targeting a multitude of individual behaviors (e.g., prepositions, pronouns, shoe tying, labeling), it was common for children to continue to have widespread deficits. “Catching” up seemed difficult at best, and the gap between them and their typical peers widened.

 

PRT builds upon the older ABA paradigms and has a focus on targeting “Pivotal” skills or behaviors in order to produce more broad changes in a child’s development.  Key pivotal behaviors have been identified for children including motivation and attention (e.g., responsivity to multiple cues). PRT has demonstrated positive changes in these "pivotal behaviors" exhibiting widespread effects on many other behaviors associated with language and social interaction.

 

Pivotal Response Training (PRT) provides a guideline for teaching skills and has been most successful for language, play and social interaction skills in children with autism and related disorders. 

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