The effectiveness of a constant time-delay procedure to teach chained responses to adolescents with mental retardation.
The effectiveness of a 5-s constant time-delay procedure to teach three chained food preparation behaviors to four moderately retarded adolescent students was evaluated within a multiple probe design across behaviors. Results indicate that the procedure was effective in teaching all four students to make a sandwich, boil a boil-in-bag item, and bake canned biscuits. The skills maintained with at least 85% accuracy over a 3-month period. Training generalized from the school to the home setting for the 2 subjects that completed generalization probe sessions. The percentage of errors across all skills and students was less than 9%.
Department of Special Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington 40506-0001.
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Schuster
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Gast
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Wolery
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Guiltinan
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003296:Cooking; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall