CP,
I wasn't thinking of targeting on the frame the way we do with agility training but targeting to the place that the dumbbell would be. Even if the target was a hoolahoop (sp) laying on the ground (or a something similiar that she had to go into).
Ok, I am getting ahead of myself lol. And I hope I can explain this well enough to be understood lol, (of course it would help if my kid stopped interupting me)
Put a hoolahoop or poles on the ground to form a pause area where the dumbbell would be. I would use a clicker to mark when she goes into it, then reward on ground (not from your hand) in the hoop, then I would start sending her into it and recalling her out of it to a reward (whatever she finds the most rewarding). Once she could send a distance into the hoop and come back to me, then I would start near it again using the dumbbell and progress until she would send into the hoop, pick up the dumbbell and bring it to me. Then add distance.
Then I would use a frame that could be lowered, start at the base closest to the hoop and send her, clicking and rewarding when she came back to me with the dumbbell. Then I would put her on the frame on the downside, release to the hoop etc. progress to her being released from the apex (of the lowered frame) and so on until she could be released from the far side of the of the frame. Of course we know this is called backchaining.
As she starts to understand the game, raise the frame to the point where she can no longer see you (max of 6'3"). When successful, cut off part of your hoop leaving only 3/4,keep the open part to the backside, keep reducing the hoop as she is successful. Or when removing bars on the ground, remove the back bar first then one side, then the other with the front bar being last to be removed.
But when you start working on the Sch. Frame start again with a complete hoop and backchaining, cutting down hoop etc. The second phase of the Sch Frame should go very quickly.
I would also never correct her, because I would question as to whether she fully understood what I was teaching her.
That is what I would try..........