Teaching Methods
Discrete Trial Teaching Help Schools Implement ABA Therapy for Autism by Garrett Butch
With autism rates rising steadily, schools are beginning to take more proactive steps in ensuring that children with autism are given the same educational opportunities as other students. For a majority of these schools, that means the implementation of ABA therapy. ABA training uses a set of rigidly designed methods that are proven to treat autism and to improve social and educational skills for all children. Autism spectrum disorders may not have a cure, but ABA training offers the best chances for students to live lives that are virtually indistinguishable from their peers.
When you work in a school system, you will quickly find that you have a vast array of students that learn in different manners. When it comes to autistic students, however, standard Methods Of Teaching simply cannot work. Children with autism learn quite differently than other students, taking in concepts only through rote teaching methods rather than inference. Discrete trial teaching offers the best method of teaching these concepts and skills in a manner that will be most effective.
Discrete trial teaching is a method that uses a combination of repetition, prompting, and reinforcement to teach skills, concepts, and behaviors. An idea, such as how to tie a shoe or how to answer a specific question is introduced and the child is prompted to give a particular response. Inappropriate responses are disregarded, while correct responses are rewarded with praise, affection, or even snacks or time with toys. As the child learns to imitate the responses, the prompts become vaguer until they are eliminated altogether.
Eventually, the proper response will become second nature. While many people observing the method would see this simply as a means of teaching a child to do something rather than why it is right, the method actually serves to slowly rewire the part of the brain responsible for inference and learning.
Simply put, ABA therapy is highly effective. Discrete trial teaching has been used for years with remarkable success for children with all degrees of autism spectrum disorder. While the results are different for every child, school systems will see significant benefit from the implementation of an ABA training method. When every member of the child’s teaching and support team is using the same methods and curriculum, progress is simply made much faster. Each child deserves to succeed, and ABA therapy makes this success possible and much easier to attain for all autistic children.
About the Author
Garrett Butch is the father of a 6 year old with autism and the founder of Maximum Potential. MP’s courses developed by 2 PhD BCBA’s were created to empower parents and school systems to provide effective and affordable training to school systems. To see more visit http://www.maximumpotentialkids.com
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January 19, 2012 8:25 am
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