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Role Playing

Implementation Guide

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What is Role Playing?

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What is Role Playing?

Role playing provides a framework to practice the necessary social skills that are required for a specific situation through active simulation exercises.

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What is Role Playing?

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  • Framework
  • Practice social skill
  • Practice within context of desired skill
  • Specific skill - Practice for Generalization

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What is Role Playing?

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  • Addresses the lack of opportunities to practice in real life
  • Offers simulation to practice
  • Play acting an issue/challenge

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What is Role Playing?

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Natural Behavior Acting Behavior

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What is Role Playing?

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  • Feedback on one’s performance
  • Suggestions for improvement
  • Steps/ideas to try next
  • Rinse and Repeat!

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Implementation

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Step 1: Identify the setting: Identify the setting where the learner needs to demonstrate the targeted skills

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Step 2: Conduct an ecological inventory: The teacher needs to go into the environment and observe a few times to identify the necessary social skills that are required to be successful in the given environment.

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Step 3: Develop the script: Create the dialogue that will occur between the learner and the conversation partners during the role play.

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Step 4: Create the simulation environment:

  1. role play in the same environment
  2. incorporate as much common stimuli from the targeted setting
  3. incorporate people who resemble the people in the targeted setting (i.e. similar age).

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Step 5: Model the role play scenario: The teacher models the role play with someone else (i.e. strong peer, assistant teacher) while the targeted learner observes.

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Step 6: Incorporate the learner:

  1. Student practices their part in the role play
  2. Use visual cues (written scripts)
  3. Fade out words from the script over time

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Written Script Fading Example:

  • Hi, my name is Bill
  • Hi, my name is _____
  • Hi my ______
  • Eventually remove the written script

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Attempt in the Authentic Setting:

  1. mastery of the script - Accomplished
  2. demonstrate the learned skills in the authentic setting
  3. The teacher should bring the visuals (i.e. written scripts) used in the training setting in case the learner needs support in the authentic setting.

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Video Examples

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Additional Resources

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