Select one functional skill you wish to teach and describe two interventions of how you will teach this skill.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Students can choose any intervention strategies mentioned in the text with a detailed description of how it may be used in teaching the selected skill. Here is an example:
Selected task: Use money to purchase items
Intervention strategy 1: Chaining
• Create a task analysis of purchasing.
• Direct students to make a purchase.
• Observe student performance at each step. If the student does not perform independently, provide prompts. If the student does perform independently, let him/her continue the process.
Intervention strategy 2: Visual support
• Create and display pictures of grocery produce items.
• Have students select a picture, take it to the pretend cash register, and make a purchase.
• Students can also make a grocery list and figure out how much money they need to shop.
• Ask students to find the items on their list and write the prices down on the list.
• One student can serve as a clerk, so he or she has to make change when students make purchases.
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