Chaining

Chaining is a simple concept. You can do both backwards and forwards chaining. It is simply teaching one step at a time. For example if you are teaching someone to use a computer, if you are doing forward chaining you first teach them to turn it on. If you are doing backwards chaining you first teach them to turn it off. If you are teaching someone to get dressed, you may first teach them to put on their underpants (it could be broken down even more basic if needed teaching them to first pick up the underpants in a certain way and then teaching them to put one leg in and then the other and then pulling them up. That is forward chaining. If you were training doing backwards chaining you may put most of the top on and put their head through and one arm through and teach them to put the other arm through on their own. The next step would be to teach them to put both arms through on their own. With either forwards or backwards chaining you continue to redo the steps already learned.