At the inaugural conference of the American Re-ED Association in Nashville nearly 30 years ago--where this author had the first opportunity to interface with teacher-counselors from across the country--two very powerful notions became clear. One was that the participants all possessed vitality and love of fun, a quality Nicholas Hobbs called…

Generalization refers to the extension of learned behaviours to novel conditions, and it is one of the criteria by which the effectiveness and efficiency of a remediation programme may be judged. This article extracts principles of generalization from the treatment literature, and provides examples of how this information may be used to help guide…