Below is a general skill sequence for helping learners wait in line.

As learners gain the ability to sit and wait in areas without elopement and other problem behaviors, the clinician or teacher may elect to begin teaching fundamental concepts related to waiting in line. This skill area addresses waiting in a line from a variety of different angles, namely in elopement and movement through the line. As learners gain fluency here, more complex community and classroom skills can be addressed!

Treatment Plan Goal Ideas

This is a list of treatment plan goals. These are different from the goals you will find in the skill sequence below. Your treatment plan goals encompass any number of goals from the skill sequence. Sometime they will include multiple goals from the sequence (”Learner will label 5 toys”) and sometimes the treatment plan goal will be simply consist of a really important goal from the skill sequence (”Will label caregiver”). An analogy I like to use goes as follows: Each skill sequence goal (commonly known as a “target”) represent each stair in a flight of stairs. The treatment plan goal is the flight itself.

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

Learner will remain standing, in a designated area without elopement for 2 minutes while engaged with fidget activities (or similar).
Learner will move along in a line without elopement for 60 seconds while engaged with fidget activities (or similar) and with minimal prompts.
Learner will move along in a line without elopement or prompting for 60 seconds.

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

Performs Preferred Action with Preferred Item (LR)

Performs Action During Familiar Routines (LR)

Intro to Sitting

Intro to Waiting

Intro to Handholding

Transitioning With Others

Skill Possibilities

Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to wait in a line. 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.

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#1 Waits while standing, holding hands, stationary, w/high value for 30s

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#2 Waits while standing, holding hands, stationary, w/high value for 60s

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#3 Waits while standing, holding hands, stationary, w/high value for 2m

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#4 Waits while standing, holding hands, stationary, w/toy for 30s

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#5 Waits while standing, holding hands, stationary, w/toy for 60s

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#6 Waits while standing, holding hands, stationary, w/toy for 2 minutes

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#7 Waits while standing, no handholding, stationary, w/high value for 30s

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#8 Waits while standing, no handholding, stationary, w/high value for 60s

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#9 Waits while standing, no handholding, stationary, w/high value for 2 minutes

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#10 Waits while standing, no handholding, stationary, w/fidget toy for 30s

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#11 Waits while standing, no handholding, stationary, w/fidget toy for 60s

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#12 Waits while standing, no handholding, stationary, w/fidget toy for 2 minutes

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#13 Waits in line, no handholding, w/high value for 30s

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#14 Waits in line, no handholding, w/high value for 60s

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#15 Waits in line, no handholding, w/high value for 2 minutes

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#16 Waits in line, no handholding, w/fidget toy for 30s

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#17 Waits in line, no handholding, w/fidget toy for 60s

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#18 Waits in line, no handholding, no toys, 30s

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#19 Waits in line, no handholding, no toys, 60s

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#20 Waits in line, no handholding, no toys, no prompts, 30s

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#21 Waits in line, no handholding, no toys, no prompts, 60s

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 Handholding

Intro to Waiting

Intro to Circle Time

Transitioning With Others

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.

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