Step 1.2 Identify a specific activity or routine to teach
Since the target skills are always chained skills or behaviors, the selection of the activities, routines, and materials will be integrated into identifying the target skills or behaviors.
The target stimulus should signal the time for using the skill; therefore, teaching should occur when the chain is needed. Using typical routines will allow the toddler to practice the target skills/behaviors frequently throughout the day. The EI team would analyze the day and determine when and where the chained activity is needed. For some chained skills, natural times to teach the chain may be few, so it is important to build in times when the skill may be taught.
EXAMPLE
If you are teaching the toddler to develop a simple play scheme, you would want to identify one or two play opportunities in a day to teach the play skills.