Daily routines

# Tiny Bites

Bite shaping for food selectivity, with a choice board

A choice board of 21 steps with a new food, from Look covered to Swallow 4. The learner picks a step and does it. Each card’s color says how much reward to give: green for all rewards, yellow for some, red for none. You set each step’s color for the learner.

 [Open Tiny Bites](https://aba-tools.com/tools/tiny-bites)

## When

-   Treating food selectivity with a shaping hierarchy, where the learner chooses how far to go with each bite.
-   Learners who do better with a visible choice and a clear, steady rule for what each choice earns.

## Why

-   The learner always has a choice, and the color shows the reward before they choose, so a bigger step always pays more.
-   The board follows the learner’s criterion. When the criterion moves up, the colors move with it, one step at a time.
-   The reward time counts down on screen and a soft tone ends it, so each reward is the same length.
-   Every pick is saved with its color and your score, so you can see which steps the learner picks and when to move the criterion up.

## How

1.  On the setup screen, pick **Full reward starts at**. That step and the steps after it get full reward (green), the 2 steps before it get some reward (yellow), and the rest get none (red). Then tap a color on any step to change it, or hide a step.
2.  Under **What each color means**, you can pick other colors, and set the reward times (to start, 45 seconds for full and 30 for some). Pick a **Food picture** for the cards, then tap **Play**.
3.  Present the food. The learner taps a card. Score it: **Did it**, **Problem behavior**, or **Didn’t do it**. **Wrong card** puts the pick back and saves nothing.
4.  The screen turns the card’s color and counts down the reward. A red step, or a step not done, says to take the food away. Tap **Next trial**.
5.  Use **Back** to take out the last trial. **End** goes back to setup.

**Saved to the dashboard:** Every step the learner picks, its reward level at the time, and your score. A trial meets the goal when the learner does a full-reward step without problem behavior. Each session shows the percent that met the goal, the highest step done, and each step’s scores. Moving where full reward starts begins a new phase on the graph. The food picture isn’t saved.

## More learner activities

- **[Flashcards](https://aba-tools.com/guide/flashcards)** (Naming & recognition): Naming pictures (tacts) in discrete trials
- **[Pronouns Practice](https://aba-tools.com/guide/pronouns)** (Language): Pronouns: pick the picture, or find and read the written word
- **[Find It](https://aba-tools.com/guide/find-it)** (Listening): Listener responding: hear a word and tap the picture
- **[Which One?](https://aba-tools.com/guide/which-one)** (Listening): Listener responding by function, feature, and class
- **[Match It](https://aba-tools.com/guide/match-it)** (Matching): Visual matching to sample
- **[Sort It](https://aba-tools.com/guide/sort-it)** (Matching): Sorting pictures by class, function, or feature
- **[Put It](https://aba-tools.com/guide/put-it)** (Listening): Following instructions with in, on, under, next to, and in front of
- **[Feel It](https://aba-tools.com/guide/feel-it)** (Social): Reading feelings in social situations: how a child feels, why, and what to say
- **[Count & Compare](https://aba-tools.com/guide/count)** (Math): Early math: numerals 1–5, counting, matching numbers to amounts, more and less, and size
- **[Word Match](https://aba-tools.com/guide/word-match)** (Reading): Early reading: matching printed words to pictures, and letters
- **[Trace It](https://aba-tools.com/guide/trace-it)** (Writing): Pre-writing and handwriting: tracing lines, shapes, letters, and numbers
- **[My Way](https://aba-tools.com/guide/my-way)** (Communication): A functional request (mand), for example in FCT
- **[Say It](https://aba-tools.com/guide/say-it)** (Communication): A talker (AAC) for requests and first sentences, with every press counted
- **[Toothbrushing](https://aba-tools.com/guide/toothbrushing)** (Daily routines): A 9-step toothbrushing chain (task analysis)
- **[Token Board](https://aba-tools.com/guide/tokens)** (Motivation): A token economy: a themed token board or a gem jar, with a picture menu of how to earn

Every tool, learner profiles, and questions are in the guide. [Back to the guide](https://aba-tools.com/guide)

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From https://aba-tools.com/guide/tiny-bites