Here is a video that shows the tag point “Say Please.” This is the very first TAGteach session with 4 year old Lear.

This is an easy way to get started with a verbal child. He asks for the reinforcer and he gets a tag. This helps to establish the tag sound as a conditioned reinforcer. He will start to recognize this as the sound of success and he will be happy to play the tag game the next time, when the demands are higher.

In the video below, the sequence of events is as follows:

Antecedent: Anne tells Lear, “The tag point is say please” (this is a verbal prompt)

Behavior: Lear says “please can I have a Skittle?”

Consequence: Anne tags and gives him a Skittle

A conditioned reinforcer is a something that was originally neutral and meaningless to the child, but has become reinforcing because of being associated with something pleasurable.

For example, the tag (click sound) has no meaning to the child at first. Once she learns that the tag means a treat is coming or the tag means that she was successful, the tag becomes reinforcing. When she hears the sound of the tag, she feels good because it has come to be associated with other good things. She will want to repeat behaviors that resulted in a tag.

A conditioned reinforcer is a something that was originally neutral and meaningless to the child, but has become reinforcing because of being associated with something pleasurable.

For example, the tag (click sound) has no meaning to the child at first. Once she learns that the tag means a treat is coming or the tag means that she was successful, the tag becomes reinforcing. When she hears the sound of the tag, she feels good because it has come to be associated with other good things. She will want to repeat behaviors that resulted in a tag.