Autism- Article 6 Incidental Teaching

Question 1

Incidental teaching refers to the interaction between an adult and a single child, which arises ____________ in a(n)_______________ situation

Answer 1

a. Naturally in an unstructured situation

Question 2

What does it mean to say that an incidental teaching situation is child-selected

Answer 2

a. Child initiates interaction by requesting assistance from an adult

Question 3

What is the first and most subtle cue that adults can present during an incidental teaching opportunity? If this isn’t effective, what comes next?

Answer 3

a. presence of the adults attention

b. verbal cue

Question 4

What is a pre-requisite skill that the child must have in order to be able to use the most fullest degree of prompting for verbal responses

Answer 4

imitation

Question 5

What did they measure?

Answer 5

Each 15 minute verbalization sample

Question 6

How were the materials arranged to bring about an incidental teaching occasion?

Answer 6

All the materials were in sight but out of reach of the child.

Question 7

Describe the results when they used incidental teaching with adults as mediators only.

Answer 7

compound sentence usage increased

Question 8

What happened when incidental teaching was used to direct responses toward peers?

Answer 8

remained the same

Question 9

Finally, when incidental teaching was discontinued, what happened to both responses (peer directed and teacher directed)?

Answer 9

Peer directed increased and teacher directed decreased

Question 10

Did teacher prompts play a role in the students’ continued use of compound sentences? Why?

Answer 10

Negligible role