ESSAY : How can these intervention models be used to teach social skills? Provide an example for each.

Review incidental teaching, milieu teaching, pivotal response treatment, video modeling, and peer-mediated instruction. How can these intervention models be used to teach social skills? Provide an example for each.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Developing social skills in children is critical. Social skills make it possible for children to have healthy and positive relationships with the people in their lives. Some of the areas in which social skills apply include career, friendships and family (Kemp, 2017). There are several intervention models that teachers could use while instructing children on social skills. The first applicable intervention method is incidental teaching, which refers to the creation of an environment in which the child’s interests can easily be nurtured to motivate them to learn. This model encourages the child to improve their communication and language skills, which are important in the development of social skills (Kamps et al., 2017). An example of incidental teaching is whereby the instructor…