Below is a general skill sequence for helping learners match the most basic forms of emotional representations.
We all know the groundwork for grasping emotions starts with decoding those subtle cues—body language and facial expressions, right? But what about our learners who aren't quite there with receptive identification? Enter the world of matching, especially with something as straightforward as emoticons. Yep, these tiny symbols can serve as stepping stones, potentially setting the scene for recognizing real-life facial expressions and, down the line, situational emotional scenarios.
Treatment Plan Goal Ideas
This is a list of treatment plan goals. These are different from the goals you will find in the skill sequence below. Your treatment plan goals encompass any number of goals from the skill sequence. Sometime they will include multiple goals from the sequence (”Learner will label 5 toys”) and sometimes the treatment plan goal will be simply consist of a really important goal from the skill sequence (”Will label caregiver”). An analogy I like to use goes as follows: Each skill sequence goal (commonly known as a “target”) represent each stair in a flight of stairs. The treatment plan goal is the flight itself.
Treatment plan goal ideas for this particular skill area are as follows:
- Learner will match five different identical emoticons in an array of 15.
- Learner will match ten different identical emoticons in an array of 15.
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
Matches Common Items in 2D Array 1.0 (Identical)
Matches Familiar People in 2D Array (Identical)Skill Possibilities
Below is a possible skill sequence for working on increasing your learner’s ability to match emoticons in a 2D array. 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.
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.
Matches Numbers 1-15 in 2D Array (Identical)
Matches Uppercase Letters in 2D Array (Identical)
Matches Lowercase Letters in 2D Array (Identical)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.
Receptively IDs Emoticon Expressions in 2D ArrayMatching Cartoon Expressions & Emotions in 2D Array (Coming Soon!)
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