As students develop their language skills, tasks include retelling recent events, identifying objects by sound, and following oral directions. As students begin to develop reading skills, lessons focus on identifying elements of a story and expanding vocabulary. Math skills are initiated with understanding vocabulary terms such as same, different, more, less. Citizenship instruction is initiated by having students identify the flag, learn the flag salute, and learn about holidays. The program for children with autism is a move to mastery experience.
Students begin with an individualized menu of programs and proceed at their own pace.
Skills are presented in small steps, with students moving from one step to the next based on their own rate of progress toward achieving mastery. Each student in the program has a data book which is used to assess progress toward objectives. On a daily basis, data is recorded on each student's responses to the presented teaching programs. A student is considered to have given a correct response only when the response is given without any prompting. The percentage of correct responses is calculated and graphed daily in order for progress over time to be seen.