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- Title
Choice Making: A Strategy for Students With Severe Disabilities.
- Authors
Stafford, Alison M.
- Abstract
This article describes a strategy that has been effective in teaching choice-making skills to children who are five to ten years old and who have severe intellectual disabilities. The key components of this strategy includes preference assessments, a sequence of choice levels and constant time delay. The first two components of the strategy give individuals with severe disabilities multiple opportunities to develop their choice-making abiilties by offering them immediate reinforcement in the form of a preferred item. The strategy includes the final component because of its effectiveness as a teaching strategy. Constant time delay provides a systematic method of teaching skills by routinely giving students prompts that enable them to learn new skills more efficiently by limiting the number of errors.
- Subjects
CHILDREN with learning disabilities; CHILDREN with intellectual disabilities; DECISION making; CHOICE (Psychology); TEACHING
- Publication
Teaching Exceptional Children, 2005, Vol 37, Issue 6, p12
- ISSN
0040-0599
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/004005990503700602