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Ballard, Keith D. – Exceptional Child, 1983
Teaching exceptional children to use verbal cues to control nonverbal behaviors is suggested as a procedure for establishing adaptive behaviors and as a self-management strategy for ensuring generalization and maintenance of new responses. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Disabilities, Generalization, Mediation Theory
Peer reviewedHughes, Carolyn; Rusch, Frank R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1989
Two individuals with severe mental retardation, participants in a supported employment program, were taught to use self-instruction in combination with multiple exemplar training to solve work-related problems. Use of the combined strategy resulted in generalization of self-instruction statements and correct responses to untrained problem…
Descriptors: Adults, Generalization, Job Skills, Learning Strategies
Moore, Stephen C.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1989
The investigation assessed effects of a self-management training program on the production rates of four severely mentally retarded workers. The program comprised self-instructions, goal setting, and self-reinforcement. Results indicated that the program substantially improved the production rates for all workers for up to three months. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Job Skills, Job Training, Mediation Theory
Peer reviewedCampbell, Donald S.; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
Sixteen impulsive hearing-impaired adolescents were trained to solve visual problems using a modified version of the "LOGO" computer language; subjects received concurrently presented self-instruction training while controls did not. On two dependent measures of impulsive problem-solving behaviors, treatment subjects demonstrated…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Conceptual Tempo, Hearing Impairments, Intervention
