Teaching Strategies

Question 1

8 Key Teaching Strategies

Answer 1

Direct Modeling
Indirect Modeling
Shaping
Prompts
Fading 
Expansion
Negative Practice
Target Specific Feedback

Question 2

Teaching Strategy where clinician models and client imitates

Answer 2

Direct Modeling

Question 3

Teaching Strategy where clinician demonstrates a specific behavior frequently to expose a client to numerous well-formed examples of the target behavior

Answer 3

Indirect Modeling

Question 4

Teaching Strategy where target behavior is broken down into small components and taught in an ascending sequence of difficulty

Answer 4

Shaping (by successive approximation)

Question 5

Teaching Strategy where additional verbal or nonverbal cues to facilitate production of target behavior

Answer 5

Prompts

Question 6

Two classes of prompts

Answer 6

Attentional Cues (bring focus to task)
Instructional Cues (help teach target behavior)

Question 7

Teaching Strategy where stimulus or consequence manipulations are reduced in gradual steps while maintaining the target response

Answer 7

Fading

Question 8

Teaching Strategy where clinician reformulates a client’s utterance into a more mature or complete version

Answer 8

Expansion (recast)

Question 9

Teaching Strategy where intentional production of erred response in order to highlight the contrast between the error and the desired response

Answer 9

Negative Practice

Question 10

Teaching Strategy where clinician provides information regarding the accuracy or inaccuracy of a client’s response relative to the specific target behavior

Answer 10

Target Specific Feedback

Question 11

T/F One purpose of homework is to introduce new skills.

Answer 11

False. Homework should only reinforce what has already been presented and practiced in therapy.

Question 12

What is the purpose of homework? (2)

Answer 12

Strengthen Response

Facilitate Generalization

Question 13

In Session Design, what is a “success oriented” task order?

Answer 13

Easy to Hard

Question 14

What are the 4 steps in a basic training protocol?

Answer 14

1. Present Stimulus
2. Wait for Response
3. Present Consequence
4. Record Response, Remove Stimulus

Question 15

What 3 factors contribute to the dynamics of therapy?

Answer 15

Clinician-Client Relationship
Pace of Session
Proxemics

Question 16

The physical location of a clinician in relation to the client

Answer 16

Proxemics

Question 17

What are some advantages of a group therapy session?

Answer 17

“Typical” developing individual can provide a model
Clients can provide support for each other
Relationships can develop
Peer interactions facilitate generalization

Question 18

In order to facilitate data collection, what should you have prepared?

Answer 18

Data sheets

Question 19

T/F All clinicians should use the same notation system.

Answer 19

False. Use a notation system relevant to you, but be consistent.

Question 20

When collecting data, always indicate what the _____________ was, and record every _____________-_______________.

Answer 20

Goal;

Stimulus-Response

Question 21

A set of stimuli that are equivalent to but different than those used for treatment. Responses are elicited without target-specific instructions and without reinforcement.

Answer 21

Probe

Question 22

What is the most important question to ask when troubleshooting therapy?

Answer 22

“Am I enjoying the interaction?”

Question 23

Model of service for children who need extra help but do not have an IEP

Answer 23

RTI (Response to Intervention)

Question 24

Service model based upon scientific data, clinician expertise and the individual values and beliefs of the client

Answer 24

EBP (Evidence Based Practice)

Question 25

The practice of modifying a task when a client does not perform as predicted; a chosen task turns out to be too difficult or too easy for the individual, the clinician recognizes it, and immediately adapts the teaching.

Answer 25

Branching

Question 26

Service model based on determining how effective a treatment is, based on multiple baselines, and how well treatment alters a behavior in an individual, then implementing it.

Answer 26

Treatment Efficacy