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Holburn, C. Steven; Dougher, Michael J. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1985
Techniques for training a severely retarded blind client to exit his living unit during a fire drill used a combination of negative and positive reinforcement. Following a shaping procedure, the client learned to leave his living unit from any internal point through generalization training and subsequent test probes. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Fire Protection, Games, Generalization