Discrete trials for preschooler

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I teach Preschoolers on the Autism spectrum. One of my

students is very verbal, socially engaging, and functioning

academically pretty much on par with typical peers. His

parents are insisting on 10+ hours weekly

of discrete trial training during the school day.

His schedule gives him 16 hours/week in my self contained

classroom (minus 2 hours of therapies) and 10 hours/week in

an inclusion classroom(where he is being successful). We

are in the of assessing him using the ABLLs. My concern is with 10 hours of

DTT he will miss out on a lot of social interaction with his peers which he

thrives on. Any suggestions? Thanks! Deb