Autism Classroom Observation

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For this task, I observed a teacher in a moderate/severe Autism classroom. I chose to conduct my observation during the class’ calendar time, this is one of the few opportunities during the day when the teacher conducts whole group instruction. During the 30 minutes in which I observed, the teacher interacted with the students for 34 opportunities total. She gave nine opportunities to respond; 16 reprimands/corrective commands; 9 general praise statements, and zero behavior specific praise statements.
After analyzing the data, I was able to identify a sequential verbal pattern. The teacher would ask a question and give all students the opportunity to respond, the first student to call out correctly, would then come to the white board and answer.

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