Table 3.

Beneficial strategies based on strengths and weaknesses a child demonstrates in earlier early intensive behavioral intervention programming

Strategy	Strength or weakness
Similar task interspersal with expansion trials	W = frequent maintenance trials required
Time expansion	W = a large number of trials necessary to learn new skill
Touch object versus hand object	W = double responding/scrolling
Embedded discrete trial teaching	W = limited contrived reinforcers
Verb–noun combination	W = need for radically different responses in other programs
	S = object imitation; receptive instructions
Modified incidental teaching	S = requesting through incidental teaching
Two-item field	S = effective error correction procedure
Modes of stimuli	S = faster acquisition with one type of stimulus

W weaknesses, S strengths