Instructional Control - Training Objectives
- Understand the characteristics of motivation and that it is of paramount importance when teaching language to children with developmental disabilities
- Demonstrate understanding of the value of reinforcement, effort of the response, rate of reinforcement, magnitude of reinforcement and immediacy of reinforcement (VERMI).
- Identify the importance of the pairing process in teaching and establishing instructional control
- Identify how to use non-contingent reinforcement within your pairing process
- Identify how to use stimulus demand fading procedures in order to maintain your effective teaching
- Discuss tips for effective reinforcement and identify reinforcers based on reinforcer inventories and preference assessments
- Identify the steps of errorless teaching
- Identify how to use a mixed and varied presentation, fast paced instruction, and appropriate schedules of reinforcement in intensive teaching
