| Behavior chain interruption strategy | A learning strategy that involves interrupting a task analysis of sequenced or chained steps to encourage communication skill development.
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| Chained behaviors | A series of discrete behaviors that are sequenced and combined to complete a larger, single behavior.
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| Community-based instruction | Involves teaching students skills in the community environments in which the skills will be used.
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| Distributed trial teaching | An instructional strategy that involves teaching a skill at naturally occurring times and to natural cues in the environment.
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| Developmentally appropriate practice | An instructional approach in which it assumes children develop at different rates and involves engaging each child in activities appropriate to her or his current developmental level to build on skills to learn increasingly higher-level developmental skills.
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| Dynamic assessment | A test-teach-retest paradigm that places greater emphasis on how well the student learns than on the product of learning, and is useful for revaluating learning potential.
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| Massed trail teaching | An instructional strategy that involves practicing skills repeatedly in the same teaching session.
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| Partial participation | Individuals are allowed to partially engage in an activity rather than deny or delay their involvement because prerequisite skills have not been learned or mastered.
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| Supported employment | Can involve the use of job coaches who provide individual help to individuals in learning new job skills and continue monitoring; supported employment can also involve more extensive supervision through the employment of small groups of individuals who work in a business or perform jobs in the community.
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| Transfer/generalization | The ability of an individual to take new learning and use it in a new environment or situation, or to apply the learning in some manner that was not directly taught.
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