Isn’t 40 hours per week a lot for a preschooler?
During early stages of the program, children and tutors work in 2-3 minute sittings, with 1-2 minute breaks between sittings, and take longer hourly breaks. Children receive immediate and concrete reinforcement for everything they do, and staff adjust the complexity of tasks on a minute-by-minute basis to insure continuous success and reward. When provided by skilled staff, intensive instruction can be a genuinely entertaining experience for children. However, such intense interaction, provided by unskilled personnel, can rapidly become aversive.
