Step 8. Conducting Discrimination Training
Another part of DTT consists of teaching a learner a new response to a stimulus. When teaching a new response, the learner must first be taught to discriminate the stimulus from others. Teaching a learner the concept of “blue” involves teaching the learner to first discriminate the color blue from all others, and then to perform a specific behavior in response to the instruction. The steps for teaching the learner to discriminate a novel stimulus are as follows: