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Latest article Reading the data 7 min read

Can you trust your own data? The three checks that decide

A graph is only as good as the record behind it. Interobserver agreement, procedural fidelity and a record that cannot be edited quietly — what each one actually proves, and what Interlaza can and cannot tell you about them.

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Reading the data 10 min read

95% of What? The Question a Percentage Cannot Answer

Two children can both score 95% and be doing entirely different things — one recognising, one relating. A percentage cannot tell them apart, and the difference decides what you should teach next. Here is the distinction, where it comes from, and how to read it in your own results.

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Derived relations 10 min read For: Professionals

Relational frame theory in practice: the frames, the cues, and how to teach them

A working guide to relational frame theory for instructors and researchers: mutual and combinatorial entailment, transformation of stimulus functions, the main frame families, how contextual cues (Crel and Cfunc) control relational responding, and how to teach a frame with multiple exemplar training

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How matching works 8 min read

Two Simple Tasks, Two Different Worlds: Why 'Easy' Is Not One Thing

Matching a photo to the same photo and touching a dog when you hear the word 'dog' are both simple, and both count as the same kind of contact. Yet one is held up by what is in front of the child and the other entirely by convention — and no accuracy score can tell you which one you are looking at.

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Teaching without errors 9 min read For: Professionals

Errorless teaching: prompt hierarchies, fading, and transferring stimulus control

A practitioner's guide to errorless teaching: what it's also called, why you start with the most intrusive prompt, response versus stimulus prompts, how to fade without creating prompt dependency, and the failure modes that make it look like it isn't working

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Derived relations 9 min read For: Professionals

Stimulus equivalence: how learners derive relations you never taught

A practical guide to stimulus equivalence for instructors and researchers: reflexivity, symmetry and transitivity, how equivalence-based instruction multiplies what you teach, which training structure to choose, and how to test derived relations without destroying the test

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Teaching without errors 4 min read

Errorless learning: what it is and why it works

Errorless learning explained for parents and instructors: what prompt fading is, why it prevents frustration, and how to apply it at home and in session

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Teaching without errors 5 min read For: Families

How to teach colors and shapes to a child with autism

Why colors are harder than they look, what order to teach them in, and how to use matching so your child learns colors and shapes without frustration

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Sessions in practice 6 min read For: Professionals

Off the tablet: free operant, text-only MTS, and one-tap scoring

Not every learner is ready to tap a screen. Here's how Interlaza runs full sessions with physical cards, spoken language, or nothing but a cue — recorded by the instructor on the Tap Pad.

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How matching works 8 min read For: Professionals

Match to sample: how it works and the relations it trains

A deep introduction to the match-to-sample (MTS) procedure, the kinds of relations it can train, and why it's the foundation of conceptual and symbolic learning

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What Interlaza is 4 min read For: Professionals

Meet the Community Store: Share Your Modules, Learn From Others

INTERLAZA's Community Store lets instructors publish training modules and clone those shared by other professionals, researchers, and parents — with author attribution, clone counts, and one-click import.

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