Many teachers and parents struggle with
how to best teach preacademic and academic skills to young students
with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and ensure that the skills generalize
to a variety of settings, people, and materials. Incidental teaching
is a strategy that can be used to address these issues. It applies methods
of applied behavior analysis to preacademic skills taught in typical
preschool or home settings.
This topic introduces you to how you can
teach preacademic skills such as colors, size, and shape to children
with ASD in typical settings, within the daily routines. Specifically,
you will learn how to apply the strategy and develop data collection
methods, receive suggestions for materials to teach adjectives, read
a case study, find the answers to frequently asked questions, and take
a short quiz.
Welcome!