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Typically developing children constantly learned from the surrounding environment,
they learn by exploration, creative playing, modeling conversation and so
forth.
Children with autism spectrum disorders however do not learn in such a
unstructured manner.
Often the child's lack of communication skills further inherits learning in the
style.
Because of this, these children and the adults that live with them are likely to
experience great frustration, attempting to learn and teach in these situations.
This frustration can lead to a great number of behavior problems.
Fortunately many studies have examined different teaching approaches for
children with autism.
An approach called discrete trial training has been extensively researched.
It is a teaching procedures shown to be effective in a variety of applications.
Discrete trial training is composed of four parts
a teacher's instruction, the child's response, a consequence and time between
the trials, and next instructions.
Discrete trials can be used to teach imitation, labeling, following
instructions, academic skills, social skills and more.
Discrete child training is effective means for teaching children with autism
for a variety of reasons.
First teaching trial or discrete trial is very quick.
This allows for a large number of teaching opportunities.
Second the one-on-one teaching style allows the facilitator to tailor the
teaching each child.
Third discrete trial has a specific starting and stopping point.
This provides more structure to the teaching situation and often helps the
child attend and discriminate the trials.
This video of illustrate discrete trial training for individual child,
the same general procedures can be used for all group activities as well.
The first step of teaching children using discrete trials is to set up the
environment.
This'll make discrete trial natural and efficient. Generally the connection and
The child sit next to a small table either facing each other or the table.
The table should be free of all distractions. All necessary teaching
materials and data collection sheets should be easily accessible to the
connection.
And then set up the teaching materials as well as the preferred items for which
the child is working. All the bends are on the floor next to the connection. These
preferred items are determined by either interview in a caregiver about the
child's preferences
or conducting a preference assessment by observation.
By having that connection between the child and the bends, the connection can
prevent the child from having easy access to the materials.
First the connection should be seated near the child.
Tthis position allows the connection to block and correct the potential area and deal with
problem behavior.
The connection should be seated on child's dominated side, around the connection could be more
effectively prompt to the child's response.