A Different Instructional Perspective in Special Education for Practitioners: Embedded Instruction
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The purpose of this study is to clarify the naturalistic instructional approach, to give an outline of the philosophy behind it and to share the approach's benefits with regard to preschool children with developmental disabilities and their families and teachers by explaining the basic principles and steps of the embedded instruction process. In this study, it is given information about the researches related to embedded instruction that was planned for teaching different behaviors to the children with developmental disabilities by different practitioners. The contributions that the process of embedded instruction makes to preschooler with developmental disabilities, their families and teachers, are shared. In addition, the article examines the concept of embedded instruction in order to make suggestions for practitioners in the light of various research studies that emphasize the effectiveness and efficacy of the naturalistic instructional approach.
