# Using effective practices to teach students with moderate and severe disabilities

### At-a-glance

##### Topics  
Developmental disabilities & delays, Professional development

##### Resource Types  
Excerpts

##### Author  
Belva C. Collins

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Read the excerpt to learn basic components of systematic instruction; how to task analyze a chained task; and describe how it can be taught across three instructional formats: forward chaining, backward chaining, and total task presentation. Upon completion of this excerpt, readers will be able to provide examples of general and specific attentional cues and responses, and describe the rationale for delivering one over the other.

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