Below is a general skill sequence for improving your learner’s scanning ability.

Scanning is a fundamental skill to nearly every behavior we perform. Skills that serve as the basis for other skills are sometimes referred to as tool skills. As such, it’s important to ensure that our learner’s are incredibly fluent in tool skills before we introduce other more complex skill sequences. The article below provides a more readable synthesis of why scanning is important!

How to Make a Scan Artist: Ideas for Teaching Your Learner to Scan

So much of what we target for our learners consists of their scanning through an array of items or pictures to find what they need. Scanning is a fundamental building block of behavior. If you watch closely, you'll see that you're scanning all the time.

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Treatment Plan Goal Ideas

Treatment plan goal ideas for this particular skill area are as follows:

Learner will reach to grab a preferred item where the item is placed directly in front of them on a table.

Learner will remove a hard surface covering (such as a box) or a soft surface covering (such as a towel) when they cover a preferred item the learner is highly motivated for and where the covering is placed somewhere in the natural environment for three different natural environments (toy box, toy room, etc.).

Learner will upend a cup to gain access to a highly preferred edible (or item) when the item is covered by the cup in an array of one and the cup is moved six to twelve inches, three times.

Learner will upend a cup to gain access to a highly preferred edible (or item) when the item is covered by the cup in an array of ten cups and the cup is moved six to twelve inches, three times.

Component Skills

Your learner may need to be fluent in these component skills first before introducing this goal/skill area. Component skills for this skill sequence may include skill areas that are fundamental to other areas. Fluency in the skill areas listed below may increase the likelihood that your learner will succeed in this skill sequence and those afterward.

Intro to Reinforcer/Preference Expansion

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Skill Possibilities

Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to scan . Note that every learner is different and that you likely will need to tweak and vary some programming to their needs. Click the triangle icon to view the full description for each skill in the sequence/area.

Concurrent Skills

Working on these skills at the same time could help with goal mastery. Maybe your learner has mastered these skills already. Perhaps they are already listed as component skills above. That’s okay! Targeting other learning channels might help your learner.

Intro to Reinforcer/Preference Expansion

Intro to Manding

Intro to Scanning

Following Gestures

Composite Skills

These are the possible next steps for learners who have mastered, or are mastering, the skills listed above. Note that new skill areas may require fluency in other component skills not listed above. Also, you can introduce composite skill sequences prematurely to keep your learner progressing, as generativity may occur earlier than expected.

Intro to Matching (Visual Perception)

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