Enhancing Generalized Teaching Strategy Use in

Daily Routines by Parents of Children With Autism

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Kendra Durfee

a Whatstrategydidyouchoosefromthearticleandwhy?
Usingdailyroutines.WewereaskedtomakeatodochartforAndrew
andwewantedtouseitasinstructionforhimtofollow.Oneofhisgoals
isfollowinginstructionsandsowewantedtogivehimareallife
scenarioofwhenhewouldneedtofollowinstructions.
b Whatdidyoudowiththechildtoimplementyourstrategy?
WemadeAndrewatodocharttohelphimhaveareallifeexampleof
whenhewouldneedtofollowdirectionssincefollowingdirectionsis
oneofhisgoals.
c Howdidthechildrespondandwhy?
Atfirsthewasexcitedthathehadachartsimilartohisbrothersthatwas
hisbutthenhedidntwanttoactuallyuseitwhenCiaratoldhimthe
threethingshewasgoingtodo.Oncehegotintoit,helovedthechart
andwasdoingorpretendingtodothesethingsonhisown.(Therewere
acoupletimesthingstodoweredishesandwedidntwanthimto
actuallydothedishesatthismomentbutratherknowhowtousethe
chartcorrectlyandhelpguidehisdailyroutine)

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d Whatisyouroverallimpressionofthestrategyanditsusefulnesswith
youchildandmaybeotherchildren?
ForAndrewthisstrategywasveryeffectivebecauseonehewasexcited
andbecamemotivatedwithalittlepushtotrywhatwehadaskedhimto
do.Iveseenthisstrategyusedforyoungerchildrenandittoohas
workedverywellbecauseitgivesthechildasenseofwhatscomingup
sotheydonthavetobealarmedorliveintheunknown.Thereareno
surpriseswithatodochartlikethisanditisvisualforthechildtogeta
senseoftheplanforthedayorthenextcoupleofminutes.Iwillusethis
todoliststrategyinthefutureformychildrenand/orthechildrenIdo
interventionswith.

Critique of the article:

The title says exactly what the article explains. From what I could see
of the abstract, it was covering everything it needed to cover; the
methodology, results and conclusion and was very easy to see where
they are going and what they are working to accomplish. The research

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approach taken was applied because they were taking the different
teaching strategies and implementing them into daily routines.
In this article I loved that their focus included the parents and they also
taught parents a handful of different techniques that could be used to
help guide the strategy. Intervention instructions were embedded into
the daily routine that was being tested. In doing this it helped the child
to grow and work on their goal without them knowing that they were
working through play.
During the study 5 crucial steps were given. They were specifically for
implementing a general case teaching approach The simple cycle is :
1. Define what the child is able to do skill wise or what assistance
2.
3.
4.
5.

they could ask for

Selecting the teaching and test situation
Sequence teaching examples
Teach and
Test

Limitations of the study were given one of the limitations was that the
only thing that was observed and controlled carefully was the
communication between the primary parent and the child. However
others that interact with the child such as a babysitter, teacher or
daycare giver wasnt controlled or studied in this study.

Reference:

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Daily Routines by Parents of Children With Autism
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Kashinath, S., Woods, J., & Goldstein, H. (2006). Enhancing generalized teaching
strategy use in daily routines by parents of children with autism. Journal of
Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49(3), 466-85. Retrieved from
http://search.proquest.com.byui.idm.oclc.org/docview/232331042?
accountid=9817

Whatdidyoulearnfromreadingthisarticle?
Ilearnedthatitsimportantforparentstobemoreinvolvedininterventionsin
ordertohelptheirchildprogressevenmorethantheycouldwithonlythe
interventionists.Iwasalsoremindedhoweffectivedailyroutinesareaswellas
embeddinginformationintomeaningfulsituations.EverythingIwastoldand
havebeentaughthowtodoiswhatthisarticlewasalsodescribingandcarrying
outasfarasembeddinginformationgoes.