When a child has difficulty, it is a signal she needs help. Help includes verbal, nonverbal, and physical prompts given to assist a child to learn and develop skills. Help enables the child to learn a concept or to perform a skill more correctly, completely, or independently. This module introduces four forms of help and three help strategies that can be used to assist children. Incidental Teaching Incidental teac hing is a strategy for systematic intervention in everyday settings.
Incidental teaching focuses on interactions between children and adults.
During these interactions adults can use incidental teaching to provide opportunities for children to learn and develop. This module introduces each of these steps and describes how to implement incidental teaching in everyday activities. Data are used to make comparisons to detect changes in a child's behavior over time. Comparisons are made between what the child does now and what she did in the past. This helps adults determine if the child is making progress in mastering her goals and objectives.