Family Toolkit

You already know something is going on. What you need is a way to see the pattern and a plan with actual steps in it.

This is the kit most parents start with. It is $197 of tools for $99, and every one of them is interactive in the app as well as printable.

It shows you the pattern, not just a worksheet

The tracker is the part parents tell me they did not expect. You log what happened before and after using set categories rather than typing it out, and after a few days it draws four charts and tells you in a sentence what the pattern points to. Something like: five of your seven entries ended with the task stopping, that is 71 percent, and it points toward escape. Then it tells you what to teach instead.

You can print it. Blank it is a paper data sheet for the fridge. Filled in it is the thing you bring to a pediatrician or a teacher meeting.

And it works out what to reinforce

Most reward charts stop working after about two weeks, and the usual reason is that the reward was never the thing keeping the behavior going. The Parent Edition toolkit walks you through a preference assessment, which is the unglamorous business of putting five or six things out and seeing which one your child goes to first. Then it tells you to run it again the following week, because the answer changes more than you would expect.

The Home Setup Scan is fifteen questions you answer walking around your own house. Where the visual schedule actually lives, whether the rewards are visible, where the day usually falls apart. It scores as you go and ends by naming one area to start with rather than handing you a list.

Every board comes in all five themes

Classic, Ice Cream, Monster Truck, Dinosaur and Star, on the token boards, the schedule and the First/Then board. You switch inside the tool whenever you like. There is no extra charge for a theme and there never was a good reason for one.

What is included

• Well-Being Behavior Complete Bundle, eight interactive tools, including the 3-Minute Behavior Decoder and the 7-Day ABC Data Tracker
• Feelings and Emotions, 16 cards
• Coping Cards, 13 calm-down strategies
• Reward & Activity Cards, 24 ready-made icons for the schedule and the board
• Token Boards at 5, 10, 15 and 20, in all five themes
• Visual Routine Schedule, all five themes
• First/Then Board, all five themes
• What Is ABA? Toolkit, the plain-language explainer
• Motivating Operations, Reinforcement & Preference Assessment Toolkit, Parent Edition
• Home Setup Scan

Each child gets a separate saved profile, with their own boards, their own data and their own history.

What it saves

Every tool in it saves your own work. The tracker, the workbooks and the preference assessment keep a full history, so progress is a chart rather than a memory, and the rest reprint exactly as you set them up.

In the app this is a live tool rather than a blank printable. It prints from whatever you have put into it, which is the part a static PDF cannot do.

What it costs separately

Bought one at a time, the parts of this come to $197. The bundle is $99, which is $98 less, or 50 percent.

Related

• Practitioner Toolkit, $149
• Self-Directed Toolkit, $59