Mock Interview Emanuela Hale Ball State University SPCE 609 11.18.2017 Mock Interview Assignment 1. Abby is a 3 year-old girl with autism. She is verbal and engages in tantruming behavior when asked to come to the dinner table. Interview: Introduction BCBA: Hello Mr. Oxenford, I am Ela Hale and I am a Board Certified Behavior Analyst from Quality Life Concepts. At your request of services, I am here to get some background information on Abby, so that we can have an understanding of what behavior concerns you are having with Abby and ways that I can help. Parent(Mr.Oxenford): Nice to meet you, thank you so much for being here. BCBA: Pleasure to meet you. I would like to start out with some questions. If at any time …show more content…
BCBA: Do you find not eating being problematics? Parent: I think so, yeah. BCBA: What is about these behaviors that Abby exhibits that makes it problematic? Parents: I think she knows that is getting ready for dinner time because my wife and I start to set the table and she is usually doing something else. Because of it she knows that it is going to take away from her other time and she just continues to have tantrums when it’s dinner time and refuses to eat because she would rather play. BCBA: You mentioned that while you and your wife set the table she is usually doing something else, what is she usually doing during right before dinner time? Parent: She is usually playing with her dolls. BCBA: What does she do when you tell her it’s time for dinner? What does her behavior look like? Parent: She turns around. When she sees us start getting stuff ready she starts moving away from the room almost like she is trying to isolate herself from it. I think she knows it’s time to eat and she does not want to stop playing. As soon as I say it’s time to eat she starts screaming. I ask her to come to the dinner table and she refuses, which then I go there and get her. I sit her down at the dinner table and she pushes her plate away, yells, cries, says I am not eating dinner, NO, and stuff like