DRO involves • Reinforcement of a behavior that serves as an alternative to the inappropriate behavior and extinction of the inappropriate behavior. • Reinforcing the absence or the non-occurrence of the problem behavior. • Identification of a behavior that cannot occur at the same time as, the problem behavior. • Is a procedure in which the implementer can lower the rate of a response by reinforcing progressively fewer incidents of that response or by reinforcing longer time intervals between incidents of the response.