This study assessed a simple behavioral strategy for reducing stereotypic tongue protrusion and forward head tilting displayed by a woman and a man with severe to profound intellectual disabilities. The strategy involved (a) auditory prompting (i.e., verbal encouragements to keep the tongue in the mouth or the head upright) delivered automatically…

Tests the efficacy of a cueing procedure for improving the impulse regulation of four boys with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) during social skills training. Behavioral data suggested that all subjects demonstrated positive changes in impulse regulation. Likewise, the treatment effects appeared to have produced positive effects on…

Students with mild-to-moderate mental retardation (N=3) were taught four independent tasks (making a bagged lunch, playing a matching game, ordering food, and social conversation) in order to analyze the effects of matching the prompting procedure used in training to the specific behavior chain to be taught. Discusses results of prompting methods.…