Co-worker implemented job training: the use of coincidental training and quality-control checking on the food preparation skills of trainees with mental retardation.
In two studies, co-workers of persons with disabilities were taught to use coincidental training procedures while completing their own jobs. In Study 1, the effects of coincidental training on the salad-making skills of 3 trainees with mild and moderate mental retardation were evaluated. Coincidental training by co-workers resulted in improved accuracy of the salad-making skills of the trainees. In Study 2, trainees were also coincidentally taught to make quality-control checks of their salads. An alternating treatments and multiple baseline design indicated that the trainees more readily acquired the skills when taught to check the correctness of their work.
Likins
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Department of Special Education, Utah State University, Logan 84322-6500.
Salzberg
C L
CL
Stowitschek
J J
JJ
Linugaris/Kraft
B
B
Curl
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R
D000328:Adult; D003463:Cues; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods*; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods