ABSTRACT
The category of controlled presentations includes methods that are adult-directed, fast-paced, and focused on teaching component parts of complex tasks. Activity-based instruction describes the use of systematic teaching that is embedded in highly engaging play activities and common routines that are meaningful and interesting to the child. Providing choices for children with autism can increase motivation and decrease challenging behaviors. Incidental teaching is a naturalistic teaching procedure, based on ABA principles, that the people use to teach language skills. Peer interventions involve other children in teaching children with ASD. Pivotal Response Training is a naturalistic teaching strategy based on principles of ABA. Behavioral rehearsals are opportunities to act out behaviors and learn them so that they can become skills. Siegfried Engelmann developed Direct Instruction as a scripted approach to instruction, emphasizing systematic instruction delivered at a fast pace with high levels of child engagement.
