Children with autism often have great difficulty using knowledge or language gained in one setting in a variety of settings and with a variety of people. In other words, they do not easily generalize. Since at Tuneville we believe that one skill generalized is worth ten done on the ipad, Tuneville imbeds the first two steps for generalization into every lesson:
In this way, the new presentation will be closely associated, or paired, with the old. Parents and teachers can continue this process of generalization by looking for real world opportunities (or other games, shows, or books) to use the language learned from a Tuneville lesson, then gradually begin to change the wording slightly. For example, if you learned Animal Sounds from Tuneville (release date 5/30/11) say, "I’m thinking of an animal that says meow.” Later, change the question again to: “Find an animal in this book that says meow.” And again, another slight change in a future opportunity,“There is uncle Joe's cat. What does he say?”
- the lesson learned through music is then taught in spoken form and
- the illustrations used initially are traded out whenever possible for photographs for the fun activities after track D.
In this way, the new presentation will be closely associated, or paired, with the old. Parents and teachers can continue this process of generalization by looking for real world opportunities (or other games, shows, or books) to use the language learned from a Tuneville lesson, then gradually begin to change the wording slightly. For example, if you learned Animal Sounds from Tuneville (release date 5/30/11) say, "I’m thinking of an animal that says meow.” Later, change the question again to: “Find an animal in this book that says meow.” And again, another slight change in a future opportunity,“There is uncle Joe's cat. What does he say?”
