The ABA & OT Podcast #11: Shoe-Tying: Using Precision Teaching, Fluency and/or Video Modeling

Shoe tying is particularly tricky to teach to kids who are on the spectrum. This episode shares strategies to overcome obstacles in teaching this ADL, as well as adaptations you can use with students.   

Mandy and Aditi share the various component skills needed for shoe tying and the effectiveness of using precision teaching, tag teaching for instructing without distracting, and video modeling.   

HIGHLIGHTS

01:48 Shoutout to the Complete Anatomy App

03:33 Recap on Sam's fine motor, fluency, foundation skills

08:59 OT and ABA perspectives: Prerequisites and strategies for shoe tying

23:09 Teaching component skills of shoe tying

33:13 Tag teaching: Extremely useful for shoe tying and much more

37:53 Video modeling: A case-specific medium for tighter delivery controls

GLOSSARY

TAG (Teaching with Acoustical Guidance) - TAGteach is a teaching and training technology based on the application of the science of behavior that focuses on the structured application of positive reinforcement. 

RESOURCES

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EXTERNAL RESOURCES

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QUOTES

13:05 "This signal is a very distinct cue to say this is where you need to look right now. And then, when you are instructing them around the shoe, the pencil or signal goes down to the shoe and go this is where your eyes need to be right now."

21:14 "Incorporating that fluency piece made a world of difference because for that 10 minutes what we would do I would tell them, alright, Johnny, you've got 10 trials. I want you to get through 10 of step 1 and then you get to play with Playdoh, whatever, and he was so motivated."

29:41 "Actually, kids love it because you can set them a personal best, right? And say, last time you did this 10 times and if you do this 11 times this time, you get a token or clicks or a break. So that was step 1 and 2."

35:51 "You can use it for anything where you don't want to stop instruction and go, oh I love the way you said that. You just go tag and they know that they got it right. So there's a million uses for tag teaching but particularly with shoe tying it is awesome."

38:17 "Video modeling is effective because it allows more tighter control over the delivery of instruction. What did they call it, antecedent instructional prompting, and then videos can obviously be produced, edited, re-edited, based on what they need."