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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
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Reducing Student Stereotypy by Improving Teachers' Implementation of Discrete-Trial Teaching
Dib, Nancy; Sturmey, Peter
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, v40 n2 p339-343 Sum 2007
Discrete-trial teaching is an instructional method commonly used to teach social and academic skills to children with an autism spectrum disorder. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the indirect effects of discrete-trial teaching on 3 students' stereotypy. Instructions, feedback, modeling, and rehearsal were used to improve 3 teaching aides' implementation of discrete-trial teaching in a private school for children with autism. Improvements in accurate teaching were accompanied by systematic decreases in students' levels of stereotypy. (Contains 1 table and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Private Schools, Autism, Check Lists, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervals, Discrimination Learning, Student Behavior, Teacher Improvement, Children
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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