Generalization:

Once the skill is performed accurately and independently under one condition, are you arranging multiple opportunities for the student to practice the skill with different people, and in multiple settings?

Bullying can occur anywhere, so the student should gain experience by practicing responding to situations across settings including worksites, at school, and in the community.  Bullies can also be a variety of people from peers to strangers to co-workers and supervisors.  Bullying comes in many forms – teasing, verbal threats, physical aggression, exclusion and isolation, manipulation, and sabotage.  Bullying can occur in face to face contexts, phone interactions, and in cyberspace.  Systematically target different representations of bullying so that the student begins to acquire a more generalized concept of bullying, as well as a generalizable response to bullying. 

Are you arranging opportunities for the student to practice the targeted skill in natural environments and under natural conditions?

Obviously, you would never arrange for the student to encounter a real situation where bullying is expected.   But when appropriate, you can target rehearsals to occur in a wide variety of settings.  After the student demonstrates successful performance during role-plays in the classroom, arrange practice opportunities in the hallways, at work, in the cafeteria, and in other community settings. 

Have you adapted visual supports so that they can remain in the natural environments that this student encounters now, and in the future?

A short script or list of phrases can be used as a reference tool for the student, or all of the steps can be compiled into a response plan that is readily available to the student (in a safe place at school, home, work). Obviously, it is not recommended that the student refer to a visual cue in the actual moment of being bullied (unless the bullying occurs in cyberspace contexts or by phone).  Therefore, it is vital that the student becomes very comfortable with a well-rehearsed response plan that they can initiate.