Step 6. Delivering the Trials
1. Teachers/practitioners assist the learner to transition to the teaching location.
When it is time to start the trials, learners must transition to the teaching area. To help transition learners to the DTT trials, it is sometimes helpful to give them a warning (i.e., “five more minutes of play time”) or other cues that are meaningful and motivating. When thinking about different ways to cue transitions, remember the goal of generalization. The more natural and commonly occurring the cue is (i.e., an actual clock instead of a timer), the more likely it is that learners will generalize the ability to transition from one activity to another.