Increasingly, educational research is indicating that the difference between individuals without and individuals with learning problems is the ability to acquire, retain, and generalize information. Before teaching tasks to individuals with severe learning problems, it may be necessary to deliberately plan for and systematically evaluate the factors of selective attention, information feed-back, retention, and generalization for each lesson. Each of the factors is defined and described, with various components presented in flowchart and checklist format.
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