title: Strategies and tactics for promoting generalization and maintenance of young children's social behavior.
abstract: Employing a conceptual framework of generalization strategies proposed by Stokes and Osnes (1986), the authors selectively reviewed the research literature concerning interventions to improve young children's social behavior and strategies for promoting generalization and maintenance of young children's social responding. Three basic strategies are discussed: (a) taking advantage of natural communities of reinforcement, (b) training diversely, and (c) incorporating functional mediators, along with several accompanying tactics, to improve children's social interactions. Pragmatic recommendations for proactive programming of generalization and maintenance of young children's social behavior are included. In addition, the authors argue for the continued development of a technology (or technologies) of generalization and maintenance for young children's social competence interventions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Special Education, John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Odom
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002648:Child; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment