Enabling Objectives Matrix

Title of the unit/module: Training Therapists

Terminal Objective: The trainee will demonstrate the appropriate steps of mass
trails and expansion when introducing a new target to the client.

Pre-instructional Strategy: This procedure will allow you to introduce a new target
using the basics of discrete trial therapy and teaching new targets to clients. This
step by step procedure will go over the rules that need to be followed in order for
the client to be successful, how to ease a client into the teaching process, evaluate
is the target needs to be taught and procedures to follow if the child is not
successful and how we back up in the teaching process.

Enabling
Objective

Level on
Blooms
Taxonomy*

The trainee
will
automaticall
y prompt the
following
response
after two
incorrect
responses
have been
given by the
client.
The trainee
will start off
each sitting
with two
mastered
items and

Cognitive

Cognitive

Fact,
concept,
principle,
rule,
procedure,
interpersona
l, or
attitude?
Rule- the
client will
receive no
more than
two
informationa
l Nos in a
row when
working with
a client.

Learner Activity

Delivery Method

(What would
learners do to
master this
objective?)

(Group
presentation/lecture,
self-paced, or small
group)

If the client
receives two,
Nos during a
teaching session,
the trainee will
automatically
prompt the
following
response for
success.

Role play and

demonstration with
a client.

Procedurepart of the
process of
teaching a
new target.

When working
with a client, the
trainee will call
the client to start
working and ask
them two

Role play and

demonstration with
a client.

continue
where they
last left off in
the second
sitting.

When
introducing a
new target,
the trainee
will Probe
the target
two times
before
teaching the
item or
move on to
the next
target.

Cognitive

Procedurethe trainee
will ask the
client (e.g.,
Probe) if
they know
the target
before
teaching the
target.

If the client
gives two
incorrect
responses
during the
expansion
process, the
trainee will
go back to
the mass
trail phase.

Cognitive

Procedure- If
the client
missed the
target more
than two
times, after
expanding,
the trainee
will start
back in mass
trails and
prompt the
target.

mastered
questions. After
the client has
had a break, the
trainee will call
the client to work
and pick up
where they last
left off (e.g., if
the client ended
on mass trails,
the trainee would
start in mass
trails).
When Probing
a new target, the
trainee will ask if
the client knows
the answer (e.g.,
what is it?).
After the client
responds, the
trainee will give
a neutral
response (e.g.,
ok), and
determine if they
need to teach
the target or
move on to a
new target.
If the client is in
the expansion
process and
gives two
incorrect
responses, the
trainee will go
back to mass
trails and prompt
responses until
the client can
give an in
independent

Role play and

demonstration with
a client.

Role play and

demonstration with
a client.

response and
then continue to
the expansion
process.