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The mission of Saint Clare
School for Special Education

is to educate children with learning differences

Our Approach

Incidental and Naturalistic Teaching

Incidental and Naturalistic Teaching

Naturalistic teaching aims to emphasize the physical and social contexts in which learning occurs, what is motivating for the child, and what the child is most likely to want to communicate about. Some naturalistic teaching methods include:
- Pivotal Response Training
- Incidental teaching
- Natural Language Teaching Paradigm.
These approaches aim for a more natural approach to supporting language and communication development for children with Autism, Asperger's syndrome or other developmental disorders. The child becomes the focal point of social interactions and has more control over preferred activities and topics of conversation. Providing choices for the child increase the motivation to learn and provide opportunities to learn from the consequences of their choices. Naturalistic teaching allows the generalization of skills acquired as learning occurs in a variety of natural environments.


Managing behaviors in the context of autism or Asperger's syndrome can be very difficult, and it is natural to want to express our frustration at non-compliance and resort to punishment. However, concentrating on positive language and providing alternatives will increase the chances of modeling more appropriate behaviors.


Consequences must be clearly related to the challenging behavior. For example, if a glass of water was thrown and the glass smashed, the logical consequence would be for the person to clean up the mess and replace the glass. If an unrelated punishment was enforced, such as not being able to go to the movies the next day, the child will probably not be able to see or understand the link, and the learning benefits of the process would be lost.

The six elements that form the basis for successful consequential management are:

• Define your expectations of appropriate behavior

• Link consequences to behavior

• Use appropriate language

• Allow informed choice- what will happen with the behavior chosen

• Use of positive reinforcement for appropriate behavior

• Be aware of timing

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