Teaching and instruction individuals to deliver Discrete-trail teaching
Thomson and colleagues from University of Manitoba, has an excellent article in press in the journal Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders. It´s a review of research done on teaching individuals to deliver Discrete Trail Teaching (DTT).
The article review the components of instructing parents, para-professionals, and other professionals and bring some interesting results, but not surprisingly concluding with the need of more research.
And one of the elements this article highlight is the use of standardized measurement of the delivering of DTT. The authors presents the Discrete-Trials Teaching Evaluation Form (DTTEF) submitted for publication by Fazzio, Arnal, & Martin. The DTTEF 21 items that are field-tested to measure the application of DTT. This looks like an interesting and useful tool for supervisors and program managers to secure quality in an EIBI – program. And it´s a welcomed addition to earlier published tools for evaluating DTT.
So let´s hope more researchers use the same measurements in evaluating teaching and instruction for DTT delivering, as the field of EIBI needs efficient methods to widespread these skills.
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Your blog is very helpful to me. I am in the process of attempting to train some parapros to use DTT. In the past, I have have less than stellar results.