Click here for clinical definition  Generalization Image  How
does TeachTown: Basics incorporate Generalization?  In addition
to providing a motivating teaching setting for children with
ASD, the TeachTown: Basics program addresses generalization in
the software in many ways. First, concepts are taught through a
variety of teaching modules including receptive identification
(e.g. “Can you find the blue bird?”), matching (e.g. “Match the
color to the object” match color blue to a blue bird), etc. The
discriminative stimuli and exemplars during the discrete trials
also help with generalization by varying the instructions from
trial to trial (e.g. Trial 1 “Do you see an airplane?”; Trial 2
“Which one is an airplane?”) and using a large sample of images
including photographs, drawn images, and animation for certain
concepts (e.g. actions). The use of multiple exemplars is very
important for improving generalization, as has been demonstrated
in many research studies (e.g. Jahr, 2001; Reeve, Reeve,
Townsend, & Poul