Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT)

Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) is a naturalistic intervention model derived from ABA, which focuses on the pivotal areas of a child's development: motivation, responsivity to multiple cues, self-management, and social initiations. PRT focuses on generalizing skills across people, stimuli, and environments from the beginning of the learning process. It utilizes direct, naturalistic reinforcers which are incorporated into the learning task. For example, a PRT therapist may ask, “Where are the red bubbles?” and when the child locates the the red bubbles, the therapist will then blow them, which naturally serves as the reward for receptively identifying the bubbles.

For more information, check out Stanford PRT and Research Training Program.