Significant Cognitive Disabilities

Behavioral Momentum is an instructional strategy that helps students transition from easy tasks to more challenging tasks, building confidence and engagement by creating a pattern of success.

Error correction is an instructional strategy used to address incorrect responses during skill acquisition.

For longer activities, earned tokens can provide a tangible representation of completing smaller components within the task. The tokens are often traded for a larger reinforcer at the completion of the task.

In this video, Ayo Jones discusses how to get started with learning stations.

Trial-by-trial data collection is used often for academic tasks. Record data for each opportunity, or trial, the student is given. The data may be reported in trials or in percentages, depending on how the goal is written.

Interval recording involves observing whether a behavior occurs or does not occur during specified time periods and is useful for high-rate behaviors that are difficult to count and/or do not have a clear beginning or end.

This video shows one educator sharing how she uses the various features of a single-button mid-tech augmentative and alternative communication device with students in her classroom.

In this video, Paula Kluth discusses the strategy of modeling.

In this video, Ayo Jones elaborates on the concept of scaffolding by using task analysis to teach skills through forward or backward chaining.