Initiating requests during community-based vocational training by students with mental retardation and sensory impairments.
Students with mental retardation and deafness or deaf-blindness often need some type of communication system to communicate effectively with communication partners during community-based vocational training. However, students may need specific training to learn how to initiate requests for items or assistance, a skill identified as critical for job success. Students were taught to initiate requests using dual communication boards and gestures. Data were recorded on student performance using a multiple-baseline probe design in which data were collected during baseline, intervention, and generalization phases. Students were able to initiate requests with 80% to 100% accuracy with the communication system at vocational sites. Training students to initiate requests may need to be targeted when students are first learning a job, as this is when most naturally occurring opportunities exist.
Heller
K W
KW
Georgia State University, Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education, Atlanta 30303, USA.
Allgood
M H
MH
Ware
S
S
Arnold
S E
SE
Castelle
M D
MD
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001766:Blindness / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003143:Communication Devices for People with Disabilities; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D008297:Male; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000523:psychology*; D012813:Sign Language; D012931:Social Environment