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You are a senior colorist at the cosmetic manufacturing company, Paint Me Pretty. You are also a Career Mentor for several other, more junior colorists. One of your mentees, Kitty Jones, is a colorist who is leading a project team for the third time in her 6-month career at Paint Me Pretty. The first two times that she led a team, she had a lot of guidance from you – you met with her in advance of team meetings to help her plan the agenda, you took phone calls from her after hours, and you listened to her concerns when they arose. You even set up a test run of the new product for the two of you to hash out any potential problems before Kitty had to try the product with the rest of her team.

By all accounts, Kitty has done well communicating with her teammates, and the technologists on her teams have been receptive to her lead. Some have let you know that if there was an opportunity to work with Kitty again, they would be very happy to do so. Both projects were delivered on budget and on time, with only minor issues along the way. In both cases, the customer expressed high levels of satisfaction with the Paint Me Pretty team, and both customers were complimentary of Kitty’s skills as a team leader. When you let Kitty know that you think she is ready to run the next project team on her own (without so much hands-on support from you), she expresses apprehension. She is concerned that the project has a very aggressive timeline for something so complex, so there will be little room for error. She also specifically questions how one particular member of the team, PJ, will respond to her when you are not there to back her up.

You point out that PJ is just one of the team of five and that the others are very happy to work with Kitty again. You discuss the potential problems PJ might cause and reassure Kitty she is “ready” for this next step. It is time for her to get out of her comfort zone and stretch a bit. She has agreed to take this next step but is still very nervous.

 

Answer the following questions:

1. What type of communication do you need to maintain with Kitty?

2. If you had to schedule potential meeting times with her in advance, how often would you be willing to meet and discuss her performance, while still taking a more “hands-off” approach this time?

3. What are you going to be focusing on to see Kitty’s development progress? What areas will you be able to gather data from to provide you with information regarding her behavior?

4. How can you maintain your positive relationship with Kitty, while still pushing her to “stretch” and grow?

 

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incidental teaching procedure that is based on the principles of the standard incidental procedure, but it is aimed to increase the receptive language skills of autistic children who have severe language delays. The children who have severe language delays do not initiate interaction by language or gestures (McGee et al., 1983).

Two children were both in a Teaching Family Model group home and both have been institutionalized there for a little over seven years (McGee et al., 1983). One of the participants was fifteen years old, and the other participant was twelve years old (McGee et al., 1983). Incidental teaching occurred daily in the kitchen for a 45-minute session in the kitchen during preparation for lunches (McGee et al., 1983). The teacher would ask the student, “Are you ready to make sandwiches?” or a similar question to inquire readiness (McGee et al., 1983). When the child looked at the teacher without any off task or self-stimulatory behavior, the teaching procedure was initiated and the incidental teaching began (McGee et al., 1983). There was also generalization in the study across settings, just as standard incidental teaching, but only modified to aid the severe deficits in the children. The results yielded benefits that are similar to that of standard incidental teaching procedures because if the rapid acquisition and the promotion of generalization (McGee et al., 1983).

At times it is difficult to use prompts when teaching children with ASD new skills because they can be prompt dependent; however, it is difficult to not use any prompts because they are needed to teach the skill. Incidental teaching is a procedure, which aids the children to learn the skills in a natural environment, but there also isn’t a need for continual prompts (Hart and Risley, 1975). McGee et al. (1999) showed that incidental teaching generates less prompt dependency because the teacher prompts them to elaborate on that initiation, rather than starting with a word that was chosen randomly by the teacher that does not hold the child’s interest. It is important to have at least a prompt level system in placed in orde

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