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welcome to neurodiversopedia where we explain all those big complicated words pertaining to neurodiversity in ways that everybody can understand [Music] and behavior therapy there's this thing called the ABCs or antecedent Behavior consequence it's the overlying structure of looking at the motivation and reason behind why a child behaves like they do so the antecedent is the thing that happens before the behavior and then the consequence is what happens after the behavior so this could be a good thing or a bad thing it could be a reinforcement or not so here's a tangible example let's say that a child is in the classroom and they're asked to clean their workspace before recess and their behavior is they get really angry and upset and the consequence is that they no longer get to go to recess because they got angry and upset we're going to look at the antecedent which is they were asked to clean their workspace and maybe they were asked to clean their workspace in the middle of doing a