Design To Learn Model
This model is designed to enable learners to initiate and respond to interactions with their social and physical environments.
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- Assess the child
- This process includes:
- Assessing the child’s communication and cognitive skills at school and at home
- Identifying the child’s preferences
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- Develop a learning plan
- This process includes:
- Selecting communication skills to target
- Selecting object interaction skills to target
- Developing specific learning activities that target these skills
- Modifying the learning environment to naturally encourage targeted skills
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- Teach and learn
- This process includes:
- Conducting learning activities that directly target the use of selected skills
- Engineering social and physical environments to naturally provide opportunities to use mastered and emerging skills
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- Monitor performance to promote progress
- This process includes:
- Monitoring data on child performance in instructional programs
- Adjusting instructional programs to promote progress and address difficulties
- Adjusting the social and physical environments to encourage further learning
- Reviewing child development before and after instruction
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We include family members and professionals in the assessment process.
We design learning activities and environments to provide natural opportunities for learners to acquire new skills and practice existing skills.
We focus instruction on contexts and materials that motivate learners, while encouraging them to act independently and to initiate interaction with the world around them.
We monitor the student’s performance and the learning environment regularly to evaluate progress and adjust educational programs and environments accordingly.
