Teaching prevocational skills to EMR adolescents.
A program for strengthening promptness and initiative behaviors was conducted with three educable, mentally retarded adolescents. The program consisted of three elements: (a) instructions on the responses desired and their importance, (b) a self-evaluation procedure, and (c) consequation of successful performance with social praise from the classroom teacher. The results supported the efficacy of the intervention package as a method for teaching two behaviors that are commonly emphasized in prevocational and vocational special education curricula.
D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D003479:Curriculum; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000379:methods*; D012057:Reinforcement, Verbal; D012649:Self Concept