Evaluation of a self-instructional manual for conducting discrete-trials teaching with children with autism.

Carly’s team wrote a 4.5-hour self-teach book that shows 21 DTT moves step-by-step.

They gave the book to 6 college students who had never run trials.

If a student hit 88 % correct on a checklist, they also got 10 dollars.

After reading and practice, every student scored 88 % or better on the checklist.

When they later worked with a real child with autism, their DTT stayed at 77 % accuracy.

The whole training took less than five hours and no live coach was needed.

Schroeder et al. (2014) say teachers should probe both tact and listener skills right away to save time. Carly’s manual trains the same fast, clean DTT that review calls for.

Carnett et al. (2016) blended DTT with time delay to teach kids to ask questions. Carly shows you can first train adults to run those DTT steps with just a book and a small bonus.

Cox et al. (2017) used prompting plus DRO to keep kids still for MRI. Carly uses prompting plus a tiny cash DRO to keep adult trainees accurate—same principle, new goal.

You can mail the manual to new hires, let them train themselves, and still hit 80 % fidelity before they touch a client. That slashes supervisor hours and gets staff billable faster. Try it next week: give the packet, set a 90 % mastery goal, and pay a five-bill bonus—see if your rookie RBTs match Carly’s 88 %.