progress stalled with ABA?

oandmplus1

DD has been in ABA for a little over a year now. She has made progress consistently from the beginning until just recently. Our tutors and BCBA are having difficulty finding enough positive reinforcement as her interests keep changing. She has had a backslide in a lot of skills, mostly because she just won't attend.

I had posted last week mentioning I knew I needed to work more with her at home, and I have been.

She is making progress in other areas (although slowly), like walking again since her broken leg, using a new type of cup, learning to use her straw cup, self feeding.

I guess I am just wondering what others have experienced with ABA. Did your child have a stall in progress that seemed to last forever and then somehow move past it? I just feel like we are struggling to get her over this hurdle.

Edited to add: DD is 3 and non-verbal

typeset

We would sometimes have issues when they'd increase the reinforcement interval or if there hadn't been a preference assessment in a while. 

hopecounts

What kind of reinforcers does she prefer food, toy access, physical (tickles/bouncing/etc)?

Are they getting too repetitive with using one particular reinforcer and not mixing it up?

They should be using multiple reinforcers and mixing up  using them each session to help keep them fresh. For example for DD they use social praise with sweets (m&ms, gummie bears, sweet tarts), toy access (it varies but toy animals is a consistent one, and currently a jack in the box is huge), so she might get an m&m at one point, a chance to play with the toy animals next, then a gummy bear, then a chance to do the jack in the box and so on. 

Have they done a recent preference assessment?

Oh and there have been certain times where the team has warned me progress might slow because we were stepping it up a notch and it might take longer for her to get it. And we have definitely had times where she was making much slower progress, it usually passes.

oandmplus1

They do really great re-assessing her preferences and have tried a very wide variety of them. None of them seem to be enough to keep her interest, she just seems to move on instead. Cheerios work some of the time, but not always. Food wise she is really picky and there aren't a ton of treats that will work. She enjoys the physical but is fine without it too. Some toys work, but few and far between. She is just a tough cookie to crack.

hopecounts

Oh I see what you are saying now Is there anything she hyper focuses on at home? Does she flit from thing to thing or sit and focus on one thing? Does she pace? Does she like holding things?