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If teaching in a ‘regular classroom’ is a challenge, imagine how much more challenging would teaching a class with an exceptional child be.The PSYC 315 class had the opportunity to explore some of the principles and skills required to help and teach (functional skills) a mentally retarded child. Different functional skills were role-played with the use of Applied Behavior Analysis where a particular target skill is identified and broken down into many sub-steps before the teacher closely works with a child on mastering each step involved in a target skill.
The following photos were taken while students were role-playing the usage of Applied Behavior Analysis…
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