PEAK Direct Training
PEAK-DT focuses on establishing early learning skills using feedback and support. Early learners will benefit from learning foundational skills such as making eye-contact, answering personal information questions, labelling things in the environment, and asking questions. More advanced skills in this module include early conversational and social skills, such as making comment, doing show and tell, and telling jokes.
PEAK Generalization
PEAK-G focuses on teaching learners to use skills in new and different settings, and in creative and novel ways. The goal of this module is to help learners generalize learned skills as they move through different environment. Foundational learning skills such as generalized imitation, requesting a variety of objects, and categorization are targeted early in the module. Towards the end of the module, generalizable academic and life skills are targeted, such as counting money, silent reading, as well as several important social skills.
PEAK Equivalence
PEAK-E is the first of two modules that goes well beyond directly teaching skills, establishing the language repertoires that underlie abstract reasoning and true language. The goal of this module is to encourage learners to gain new knowledge or behavior without the behavior being directly taught; or, to make inferences from events they experience. Multiple sensory inputs (e.g., sight, smell, touch) are utilized when Learners are first taught to match identical objects. Then, learners are taught to infer new information from previously learned knowledge.
PEAK Transformation
PEAK-T progresses learners even further than the PEAK-E module. This module establishes the essential skills that underlie complex cognition, reasoning, and problem solving. The goal is to encourage learners to identify events that are the same, opposite, different, as well as to compare and respond hierarchically and to interpret events in terms of the perspectives of others, from different angles of time and location. Early programs target tangible relations, such as heavy object is the opposite of light object. As a learner progresses through the module, more abstract skills are introduced, such as that happiness is the opposite of sadness. Learners are also encouraged to apply new skills in creative ways. For example, when told that a person is feeling the opposite of happy and asked to name a socially acceptable response, the learner will respond appropriately. At the end of the module, skills that underlie Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, such as identifying values, are targeted to transition learners to social-emotional support critical to success in life.