The purpose of the study was to explore the effect on parents and children of training parents in the use of the precision teaching approach to behavior modification in an effort to increase their ability to manage retarded children at home. During a 10-week training period, parents learned the modification procedure evolved by Ogden Lindsley and…

Parents of severely retarded children were successfully taught to use the precision teaching technique of recording frequency of behavior on Standard Behavior Charts as a tool in their projects to modify selected behaviors of their children. (KW)