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Carr, D.; Felce, J. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2008
Background: Children who have a combination of language and developmental disabilities with autism often experience major difficulties in learning relations between objects and their graphic representations. Therefore, they would benefit from teaching procedures that minimize their difficulties in acquiring these relations. This study compared two…
Descriptors: Autism, Prevention, Developmental Disabilities, Error Correction
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Goodson, John; Sigafoos, Jeff; O'Reilly, Mark; Cannella, Helen; Lancioni, Giulio E. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
We evaluated a video-based error correction procedure for teaching four adults with developmental disabilities to set a table. Video clips were initially used as an antecedent prompt. However, only one of the adults learned to set the table with this procedure. Consequently, the remaining three adults received intervention in which the video clips…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Developmental Disabilities, Error Correction, Videotape Recordings
Worsdell, April S.; Iwata, Brian A.; Dozier, Claudia L.; Johnson, Adrienne D.; Neidert, Pamela L.; Thomason, Jessica L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2005
A great deal is known about the effects of positive reinforcement on response acquisition; by contrast, much less research has been conducted on contingencies applied to errors. We examined the effects of response repetition as an error-correction procedure on the sight-word reading performance of 11 adults with developmental disabilities. Study 1…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Sight Vocabulary, Reinforcement, Developmental Disabilities
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McDonnell, John; Johnson, Jesse W.; Polychronis, Shamby; Riesen, Tim; Jameson, Matt; Kercher, Kelli – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2006
A single subject alternating treatment design was used to compare the effectiveness of embedded and small-group instruction to teach vocabulary word definitions to four middle school students with developmental disabilities. Embedded instruction was implemented in the students' general education classes. Students were taught to verbally define…
Descriptors: General Education, Vocabulary Development, Reinforcement, Special Education