One-to-One Training

This useful book focuses on how to teach adaptive skills to individuals with developmental disabilities.  You’ll also learn how to manage problem behaviors that often occur during adaptive skill training. This book is ideal for special education teachers and behavioral specialists, and for use in graduate and undergraduate special education classes. One-to-One Training presents straight- forward, easy-to-implement procedures that lessen the severity of the disability’s impact on daily functioning.

The one-to-one training format, also referred to as discrete-trial training, is a structured approach involving a learner and a trainer. Using this format, the trainer creates an opportunity for the learner to make a response to the trainer’s stimulus. The trainer then ensures that a correct response is obtained from the learner and provides reinforcement for correct responses.

The one-to-one training format refl ects advances that have been made in instructional procedures since behavioral principles were fi rst applied to edu- cation. This groundbreaking book examines these advances and establishes discrete-trial training as the preferred method of adaptive skill instruction.