The assignment goal is to develop a teaching program for the scenario below.

Danielle is a 15-year-old girl with cerebral palsy and a mild intellectual delay. She has limited use of her legs and thus uses a wheelchair, but her upper body mobility is fine. Her speech is indistinct but not significantly delayed. She attends a special education class in her local high school.  

Choose 1 skill to teach Danielle that has social validity. (1 mark)

Perform a task analysis of the skill. (1 mark)

Design the teaching program by completing the 4 questions below a - d. (7 marks)

Identify which prompts you will use and how will you use them. (2 marks)

Describe how you will fade the prompts, i.e. transfer the stimulus control. (1 mark)

Identify what type of chaining you will use and how will you use it. (2 marks)

Choose 1 behavioural skills training procedure and describe how you will use it. (2 marks)

Identify and label the reinforcement you are going to use. (1 mark)

• The skill that I will teach to Danielle that has a social validity is Statement-Response Skill. Considering her condition, age, and educational level, providing responses in a certain situation or conversation will help improve her social circle.

• Task Analysis for Statement-Response Skill

GOAL: Student will verbally respond to situation or question.

Phase A:

1.) Call Danielle's name ("Danielle!").

2.) Prompt her by making her repeat "Yes?" after you said it. (Danielle: "Yes?") The goal is to enable her to answer "Yes?" whenever her name is being called.

3.) Answer her back by saying a response (example: "I like your shirt").

4.) Prompt her by saying "Thank you" after you said it.

5.) Answer her back by saying "You're welcome".

A. I will be using full and partial verbal prompts to Danielle since this is a conversational skill. I will provide verbal cues such as repeating the response more than once and or making the beginning sound of the response.

B. I will fade prompts step by step until Danielle can respond to the statement independently. First is I will provide full verbal prompts by saying the response first then she has to repeat it afterwards. After some trial, I will fade it by using partial verbal prompts like only saying the beginning sound of the response ( ex: saying "Tha-" instead of "Thank you"). Eventually after some time, I will not provide any verbal prompts because she can say a response independently.

C. I will use total-task chaining for this skill because I would like to make sure that Danielle will have a mastery for each steps required with regards to the skill that I am teaching her.

D. With regards to the four procedures of behavioral skills training procedure which are the following: Instruction, Modeling, Rehearsal, and Feedback; I would like to emphasize the usage of Rehearsal for this skill because this type of social skill which is Statement- Response, requires a lot of practice since it is necessary to master an appropriate response for each situation or question. Danielle needs to know verbal cues so that she can provide a response whenever it is needed.

• I will provide some primary reinforcers like food or drink that Danielle prefers. Also, I will give it immediately after she completed the task since according to Shresthra (2017), providing immediate reinforcers is effective for students in repeating the same response again.