This study investigated the effectiveness of a sequenced choice making instructional
package in teaching individuals with multiple disabilities to increase their response
behaviors when choices were presented using photographs. The instructional package
contained several components: (a) choice making cuing system, (b) extended wait time,
and (c) immediate reinforcement with the chosen item. A multiple baseline design across
A self-instructional package to train 4 university students to implement Discrete-Trials
Teaching (DTT) sessions with children with autism was investigated. Using a modified
multiple-baseline design across participants, the students' ability to conduct DTT to teach
a confederate role-playing a child with autism was evaluated, before and after studying a
self-instructional manual (Fazzio & Martin, 2007) plus watching a video demonstration.
For each participant overall improvement in performance was made, although not all the
participants performed as well as expected. Of the four participants, two achieved
mastery and those two participants then demonstrated considerable DTT skill while
conducting a teaching session with a child with autism. Future research using this self
instructional package is discussed.