Discrete Trial Instruction - Training Objectives
- Identify components of the discrete trial
- Identify Dr. Ivar Lovaas’s early work and different ways DTI has evolved over the last few decades
- Identify correct vs. incorrect ways to deliver an SD, a prompt and give appropriate feedback
- Identify different types of prompting procedures
- Identify the steps of acquisition including mass trials and discrimination training
- Identify the purpose of expanded trials and when to use them
- Identify the importance of the shaping and chaining processes in DTI
- Identify how to use task analysis to break skills into small steps to teach the skill in DTI
- Understand the importance of data collection
- Identify the steps in using a preference assessment to determine reinforcers
- Identify reinforcement hierarchies
- Review of the principles of reinforcer effectiveness
- Identify how to use reinforcement schedules to fade reinforcement
- Identify how to determine mastery and generalization in a learner
- Identify how to use best practices and current research to enhance DTI sessions by adding in errorless teaching, natural environment teaching, and multiple exemplars
