Natural environment training- Janice M. Pellecchia.mp4

The natural environment is the environment in which your child typically interacts with people and objects on a daily basis. The natural environment include places like pre-school, home, grandma's house, church, day care, etc. The natural environment is where your child's learning and communication skills should be applied in a functional context. Your ultimate goal of teaching should be your child's ability to independently interact with others in these environments and to learn in and from their environment, like typically developing children learn.

Training in the natural environment should be ongoing and continuous. Since the natural environment does not always allow multiple opportunities for your child to use their skills, we must "set up" the environment so that these learning situations occur more frequently. Even though situations can be contrived, it does not make the environment unnatural. Natural environment training utilises the child's motivation to apply and generalise the skills they may have learned in a more discreet setting and the child can learn new skills in this setting because they are motivated to learn them.

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