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- Title
TESTING FOR SPONTANEOUS USE OF REQUESTS AFTER SIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING WITH TWO SEVERELY HANDICAPPED ADULTS.
- Authors
Sigafoos, Jeff
- Abstract
A variety of procedures have been used to promote spontaneous requesting in process with development disabilities. However, effective use of such procedures depends in part on identifying the stimuli that gained control of request a preferred food item with a modified gesture for “eat”. After learning to respond when the trainer held up an item, an assessment of stimulus control was conducted to determine if requests would occur spontaneously, that is, without the trainer having to offer the item. One learner displayed a number of spontaneous requests during the assessment. Natural maintaining contingencies were then introduced to maintain his spontaneous requests. The other learner that he sometimes requested as the trainer was about to display the item. It thus appeared that both learners were responding at an earlier point inn the trial sequence. The results suggest that an assessment of stimulus control may be helpful when selecting strategies to promote spontaneous requesting.
- Subjects
SIGN language education; FOOD; GESTURE; LEARNING; NONVERBAL communication; TRAINING; VERBAL behavior; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; PEOPLE with developmental disabilities
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 1995, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.2360100102