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(25) “adaptive behavior treatment” means services to treat a recipient’s deficient adaptive behaviors or maladaptive behaviors, a recipient’s impaired social skills and communication, or the recipient’s destructive behaviors that impair, delay or adversely affect normal childhood growth, development, or communication;

(26) “adaptive behavior treatment by protocol”

(A) means adaptive behavior treatment that adheres to the protocols that the behavior analyst has designed;

(B) includes skills training delivered to a recipient by introducing small, incremental changes to the recipient’s expected routine along one or more stimulus dimensions, and delivering reinforcement each time the recipient appropriately tolerates a given stimulus change;

(27) “adaptive behavior treatment by protocol modification” means a licensed behavior analyst directly demonstrates a recipient’s individualized new or modified protocol with the recipient to a recipient’s licensed assistant behavior analyst, autism behavior technician, guardian, or parent;

(28) “autism services”

(A) means the