Name One Strategy for Familiarizing a New General Education Teacher

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Essay

Name one strategy for familiarizing a new general education teacher with a child with autism spectrum disorder.

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Definitions:

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and eventual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Reinforcement

In behavior psychology, a consequence that will strengthen an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.

Operant Conditioning

The method of transforming behavior intensity by administering either reinforcements or punishments.

Shaping

A method of training by which successive approximations toward a desired behavior are reinforced.