Autism Jargon: Three Term Contingency

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The Jargon of the Day is Three Term Contingency. The three term contingency is basically the ABC’s of behavior. Every behavior has an antecedent, or something that occurs before the behavior, then there is the behavior and after the behavior there is always a consequence.

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