These findings replicate the results from previous studies, indicating that RIT is effective for teaching imitation skills to young children with autism in a naturalistic setting and extend the findings to parents.
This was done by the imitation training after teaching the joint attention skills.
Reciprocal imitation training (RIT) is a naturalistic imitation intervention designed to teach spontaneous imitation skills during play.
As Heinz Penzlin rightly pointed out, this process of learning is based on acquired and preserved information, which also changes with experience, and "which can be passed on from one to the other in a non-genetic manner through observation and imitation, through teaching and learning.
At that time, contradicting the academic way of teaching art through imitation, the main aim of the school was to set a laboratory for no boundary experiments.
Role playing with video-tape playback and training in the imitation of other persons who serve as behavioral models are used in teaching people new skills.
It entails immersion in musical life (classical music is to be played constantly in the child's home); miniature instruments built to fit tiny hands; the learning of real pieces by ear through imitation, with music-reading taught only later; and the intensive involvement of parents, who are trained along with the child and oversee practice at home.
Ms. Altmann, who said her mother always taught her that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, had another brainstorm.
Until the development in the 1960s of the simple Motif Notation (related to labanotation) and its application in the Language of Dance teaching method, in which the basic movement "building blocks" are explored, notation was not included in a child's introduction to movement; dance was still taught solely by imitation.
Richerson and Boyd (1995, 5) define culture as "information capable of affecting individuals' behavior that they acquire from other members of their species through teaching, imitation, and other forms of social transmission".
