The Use of Matrix Training to Teach Multi-Component Tacting Through Telehealth is the kind of topic that looks straightforward until it collides with the speed, ambiguity, and competing demands of telehealth contacts and remote supervision. In The Use of Matrix Training to Teach Multi-Component Tacting Through Telehealth, for this course, the practical stakes show up in clinically sound remote service delivery, clearer caregiver support, and decisions grounded in observable interaction, not in abstract discussion alone.
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Join Free →Children on the autism spectrum often have deficits in language development. Given the resources required to provide intensive intervention services, either in person or via telehealth, it may be important to maximize instructional time by using procedures that lead to generative language use, such as matrix training. Matrix training involves systematically arranging and selecting multi-component instructional targets, in which only a select few of the component combinations are directly taught; then, following mastery of the selected targets, a check is completed to test for the emergence of the rest of the combinations within the matrix. In the current study, we use a nonconcurrent multiple baseline design across participants to determine the effects of telehealth-based matrix training on trained and untrained language targets for three young children on the autism spectrum. Two of the three participants required booster training sessions to reach mastery in the post-test condition. These preliminary results suggest that matrix training may be an effective method for teaching multicomponent tacting skills via telehealth to young children with autism.
| Certification Body | Credits | Type |
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| BACB® | 1 | General |
Jessica received her Master's in Applied Behavior Analysis from Michigan State University and became a Board Certified Behavior Analyst in 2018. She supervised clinic based ABA services in Michigan for 3 years prior to starting her PhD where her research focused on toilet training and generative learning strategies for autistic preschoolers. Jessica received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Disability Disciplines with a focus in Applied Behavior Analysis from Utah State University in 2025. Jessica currently oversees Primary Children's Hospital's inaugural Early Intervention ABA clinic in Riverton, UT; and provides independent consulting through Copper Consulting Group, LLC to graduate students, ABA companies, and families seeking ABA services related to toilet training, quality monitoring, systems level change, organizational behavior management, and graduate student supervision/practicum.
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