OT/FYI: A Parent's Introduction to Fluency and Precision Teaching

[Guest guest]

Just an FYI for any who might be interested in the use of Precision Teaching

(PT), as a method to analyze intervention effectiveness and progress by

correct/error frequency recording using the Standard Celeration Chart (SCC), and

building skill fluency to increase retention, endurance, stability and

application.

Precision Teaching is not a curriculum or uniform procedure of instruction,

although there are curricula designed by Precision Teachers, but primarily a

method of analysis that can be applied to any program that a child is using (for

examples of application, see the programs below which cover different skills and

curriculum). There is an emphasis on frequency of response to decrease latency

and firm skills which might not be at functional rates even if accurate.

Precision Teaching looks to the student's free-operant responding, based on the

notion that " the child is always right " ; i.e., the child's responses tell us

what needs to be done instructionally.

Precision Teaching and Standard Celeration Charting is being used with students

of differing abilities and diagnoses, and by other practices and individuals in

addition to Fabrizio-Moors. I am citing their website primarily because they

have accessible examples of the application of PT to students with autism and

Asperger's syndrome.

Other refs and resources related to Precision Teaching are listed as well.

Just FYI,

Regina F.

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Fabrizio, M.A. (February and March 2003). A parent's introduction to fluency "

Parts I and II. The OARacle, andria, VA: The Organization for Autism

Research. "

http://www.fabriziomoors.com/WorkSamples/A_parent%27s_intro-parts_1_ & _2.pdf

For other professional work samples as examples of the use of Precision Teaching

for children with autism, see:

http://www.fabriziomoors.com/WorkSamples/PublishedWorkSamplesPage.htm

For more information, links to other sources on Precision Teaching, see:

http://aimchart.schtuff.com/about_precision_teaching

http://aimchart.schtuff.com/links (list of links to information, papers,

practitioners and materials),

and

http://www.celeration.org

A straightforward and very readable paper describing the use of Precision

Teaching in instructional design for children with autism:

Kerr, Ken P., Smyth, P., and McDowell, C.(2003). Precision Teaching Children

with Autism: helping design effective programmes . Early Child Development and

Care, 2003, vol. 173(4), pp. 399-410.

Abstract:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0300443032000079087