title: An intervention programme for mentally retarded infants: a behaviour modification approach.
abstract: The purpose of my paper is to demonstrate the application of behaviour modification principles in the education of young Down's Syndrome children. Illustrations will be drawn from an intervention programme currently in operation at Macquarie University, Sydney, N.S.W., which began in 1975, with 18 Down's Syndrome children aged from four months to five years. Further details of this programme are given elsewhere (Pieterse, 1976; Thorley et al., 1976). The focus of attention here will be the use of behaviour change techniques especially that of consequential events.
authors.affiliation: Down's Programme, Macquarie University.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pieterse