ABA SESSION NOTE

Client: [Name or ID, age]
Date of service: [Date]
Start and end time: [Times and total minutes]
Setting: [Home, clinic, school, or community, and the room or place]
People present: [Caregivers, siblings, or other staff, by name and relationship]
Staff: [Name, credential: RBT, BCaBA, or BCBA]
Service: [Direct one-to-one treatment, BCBA supervision during the session, or caregiver training]
Supervising BCBA: [Name]
Plans in use: [Treatment plan and behavior intervention plan, with dates]

SESSION START
Caregiver report: [Sleep, illness, medication changes, and events since the last session, as the caregiver reported them]
Arrival: [What the client was doing and how they engaged with staff, in observable terms]
Preference assessment: [Method used, and the items or activities the client chose]
Assent: [How the client showed they were willing to take part, any signs of withdrawal, and how staff responded]

SKILL ACQUISITION
Target 1: [Program and target, teaching method, trials or opportunities, percent correct, prompt level]
Target 2: [Program and target, teaching method, trials or opportunities, percent correct, prompt level]
Target 3: [Program and target, teaching method, trials or opportunities, percent correct, prompt level]
Mastery and maintenance: [Targets that met mastery today, and maintenance probes run]
Reinforcement: [Items, activities, and praise used, the schedule in the plan, and any change in preference]

BEHAVIOR REDUCTION
Target behavior: [Name as defined in the plan, with frequency, rate, or duration]
Antecedents: [What happened just before each episode]
Plan used: [Procedures from the behavior plan, as written, and what followed]
Replacement skill: [The skill taught instead, and how often the client used it, with or without prompts]
Crisis procedures: [None used, or the procedure, how long, who was involved, any injury, and who was told]

CAREGIVER PARTICIPATION
Who took part: [Name and relationship, or not present]
Training: [The skill, how it was taught: instruction, modeling, practice, feedback; and how accurately the caregiver did it]
Home practice: [What the caregiver will practice before the next session]

SESSION SUMMARY AND PLAN
Summary: [What happened, in observable terms and numbers]
Barriers: [Illness, sleep, schedule changes, setting, or none]
Next session: [Date, time, and setting]
Focus: [Targets to continue, and anything to raise with the BCBA]
Reported to BCBA: [What was reported, when, and how, or nothing to report]

BCBA SUPERVISION, WHEN PRESENT
Observation: [What the BCBA observed, and the treatment integrity score]
Data review: [Trends in the graphed data, and what they show]
Program changes: [What changed, why, and from which session]
Feedback to staff: [Feedback given, and what the technician practiced]

SIGNATURES
Staff: [Name, credential, date and time]
Caregiver: [Name and date, if your organization or funder requires it]
Supervisor: [Name, credential, and date, if the note needs a co-signature]