Below is a general skill sequence for teaching learners how to match two identical pictures of common items.

Then Matches Common Items in 2D Array (Identical) skill sequence is a possible next step after teaching your learner to the most basic match behaviors. This skill area can prepare learners to match pictures of actions, faces, and locations, and opens the door for matching non-identical items as well. The BxMastery system also prioritizes working on matching, receptive identification, and tacting by category/class in relation to potential FFC programs in the future.

How this skill area relates to your assessments!

This skill area aligns with various assessments and their respective domains, with milestone and domain codes provided for reference. Additionally, DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for Autism are included to help clinicians identify how this skill area potentially supports medical necessity in relation to the diagnosis.

VB-MAPP (Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program)

Visual Perception/Match to Sample, VP-MTS 6-M, Matches identical objects or pictures in a messy array of 6 for 25 items.
Visual Perception/Match to Sample, VP-MTS 8-M, Matches identical objects or pictures in a messy array of 8 containing 3 similar stimuli, for 25 items (e.g., matches a dog to a dog in an array that also contains a cat, pig, and pony)

AFLS (Assessment of Functional Living Skills)

Basic Communication, BC9, Labels common objects
Community Knowledge, CK17, Identifies items in the community
Household Mechanics, HM21, Labels objects in common rooms

DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria for Autism

A1, Deficits in social-emotional reciprocity, ranging, for example, from abnormal social approach and failure of normal back-and-forth conversation; to reduced sharing of interests, emotions, or affect; to failure to initiate or respond to social interactions.

CDC’s Developmental Milestones

30 months, Cognitive Milestones, Shows simple problem-solving skills, like standing on a small stool to reach something

Treatment Plan Goal Ideas

Treatment plan goal ideas for this particular skill area are as follows:

Learner will match identical pictures of five different common items in an array of five or more pictures.

Learner will match identical pictures of ten different common items in an array of ten or more pictures.

Component Skills

Your learner may need to be fluent in these component skills first before introducing this goal/skill area. Component skills for this skill sequence may include skill areas that are fundamental to other areas. Fluency in the skill areas listed below may increase the likelihood that your learner will succeed in this skill sequence and those afterward.

Intro to Scanning

Intro to Matching (Visual Perception)

Following Gestures

Skill Possibilities

Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to match common items in a 2D array that are identical. Note that every learner is different and that you likely will need to tweak and vary some programming to their needs. Click the triangle icon to view the full description for each skill in the sequence/area.

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#1 Matches Dog (Ao3)

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#2 Matches Ball (Ao4)

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#3 Matches Book (Ao5)

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#4 Matches Cup (Ao6)

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#5 Matches Car (Ao7)

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#6 Matches Juice (Ao8)

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#7 Matches Nose (Ao9)

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#8 Matches Banana (Ao10)

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#9 Matches Keys (Ao11)

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#10 Matches Cookies (Ao12)

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#11 Matches Toilet (Ao13)

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#12 Matches Toy (Ao14)

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#13 Matches Phone (Ao15)

Concurrent Skills

Working on these skills at the same time could help with goal mastery. Maybe your learner has mastered these skills already. Perhaps they are already listed as component skills above. That’s okay! Targeting other learning channels might help your learner.

Intro to Scanning

Intro to Matching (Visual Perception)

Receptively IDs Common Items in 2D Array

Matches Common Items in 2D Array 1.0 (Non-identical)

Matches Common Actions in 2D Array 2.0 (Identical)

Matches Colors in 2D Array

Composite Skills

These are the possible next steps for learners who have mastered, or are mastering, the skills listed above. Note that new skill areas may require fluency in other component skills not listed above. Also, you can introduce composite skill sequences prematurely to keep your learner progressing, as generativity may occur earlier than expected.

Matches Common Items in 2D Array 1.0 (Non-identical)