It is crucial that teaching methods are conducted accurately when teaching children with autism spectrum disorder. This can be addressed by providing new teachers with ample opportunity to practice their teaching skills while receiving feedback from a supervisor. Unfortunately, due to lack of resources, this is not always possible. Advances in Virtual Reality and Virtual Human research are making technical solutions possible, where teachers can receive situational training in simulated environments with virtual students, virtual props and automated feedback. The aim of the present work was to apply this approach to the training of special education teachers that needed to master a teaching method called Discrete Trial Training (DTT), which is particularly well suited for teaching children with autism. The first phase of the project focused on supporting the method itself with constructive feedback and basic interaction with a virtual child. A study, based on in-depth single-subject design, with a group of real teacher trainees, indicates that the teachers were able to demonstrate basic DTT skills after experiencing teaching trials in a VR environment, indicating that this approach is viable.

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面向教师学员的虚拟离散试用培训

教自闭症谱系障碍儿童时，正确进行教学方法至关重要。这可以通过为新教师提供充分的机会来练习他们的教学技能，同时获得主管的反馈来解决。不幸的是，由于缺乏资源，这并非总是可能的。虚拟现实和虚拟人类研究的进步使技术解决方案成为可能，教师可以在模拟环境中通过虚拟学生，虚拟道具和自动反馈来接受情境培训。当前工作的目的是将这种方法应用于特殊教育教师的培训，这些教师需要掌握一种称为离散试验训练（DTT）的教学方法，该方法特别适合教自闭症儿童。该项目的第一阶段着重于通过构造性反馈以及与虚拟孩子的基本交互来支持该方法本身。一项基于深入单项设计的研究，与一组真正的教师培训生一起，表明教师在VR环境中进行教学试验后能够展示DTT的基本技能，表明这种方法是可行的。