ABSTRACT
This chapter provides teachers and parents strategies to help children with ASD succeed at school, at home, and in the community setting. The examples included with each characteristic are meant to help explain the strategies and are not provided to limit the use of a strategy to the situation. In addition, for an individual child, it may be useful to address some objectives with teacher-directed instruction and others with more naturalistic instruction. To guard against such guessing behaviors, effective Discrete Trial Training (DTT) includes analyses of such response patterns and should involve strategies such as rearranging the field after each trial and distributing practice. Rearranging the field can make DTT fun and interesting as teachers can move items all over the table, almost as if hiding the correct item from the student. Working on steps repetitively, as in the sequence above, often is called providing continuous practice or mass trials.
