Discrete Trial Teaching:Prompting Strategies

Module Twelve

Review DTT

• DTI breaks skills down into small teachable parts

• Begins with the Sd

• Goal is a correct response and provides reinforcement

• Data Collection

PROMPTS• Specific Cues To The Learner• Must be effective• A Planned Teaching Strategy• Easy to Fade• Used To Teach New Skills• Strengthen The Association Between:

• Instruction• Behavior• Consequence

TYPES OF PROMPTS• Physical Prompts• Gestural Prompts= pointing• Modeling Prompts• Verbal Prompts= Teacher= Pt. to the letter “B”

VP. = It is in between the letter A and C

More Prompts

• Stimulus Manipulation= ( 17 71)T.= “Pt. to the number 71”

• Positional Prompts• PP with stimulus

– Add an additional stimulus – White paper under the correct response– Fade the white paper

Prompting Guidelines

• Prompts Are Deliberate Teaching Strategies.

• Beware of Inadvertent Prompts.

• Prompts Need to Be Faded During Teaching.

• Prompt Fading Should Be Gradual.

• Do Not Create Prompt Dependency.

GENERAL RULE OF THUMB

• Try to Avoid More Than Two Consecutive Incorrect Responses.

• Follow Incorrect Response With a Prompted Response.

• Use Differential Reinforcement for Prompted Trials.

INTERTRIAL INTERVAL

• Last step in sequence

• Pause Or Short Break Between Trials

• Breaks Up The Trials And Allows Processing Time

• May Be Used To Organize Materials Or Record Data

• Teaches the student to wait

• Teacher directs the pace

Working with Older Students

• Age appropriate materials

• Flexible and Creative

• Functional Curriculum– The Curriculum must be meaningful and

purposeful to the student

• Increased Independence

DTT & Generalization of Skills

• Across:– Settings– People– Materials– Instructions– Time– Prompts

RECEPTIVE & EXPRESSIVE PROGRAMS

• Expressive Demonstrates understanding through a verbal response– More than flashcards– Incidental Teaching opportunities: playground,

cafeteria, grocery store “What is he doing?”

• Receptive programs demonstrates understanding nonverbally

• Often start with receptive and move to expressive.

Assignment:

• Listen to the 2 audio instructions and written instructions for the DTT Video Assignment

• Upload video to Youtube

• Complete self-reflection paper based on provided questions

• Provide correct username and password for the video assignment