The study examined classroom-based instruction in restauranting skills for three male retarded students (17 to 22 years old). Ss were taught each of four skill components in sequential order: locating, ordering, paying, and eating, and exiting. (Author/DB)

The effectiveness of a five-second time-delay procedure to teach three chained food preparation behaviors to four moderately retarded adolescents was evaluated within a multiple probe design across behaviors. The skills maintained over a three-month period and generalized from school to home for subjects completing the generalization probe…