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Carter, Mark; Grunsell, Julie – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 2001
A review of 10 studies that utilize the behavior chain interruption strategy (BCIS) to teach communication skills to individuals with severe disabilities found that BCIS has been successfully applied to individuals across a wide range of ages and levels of disability, including learners with multiple disabilities. Generalization concerns are…
Descriptors: Behavior Chaining, Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization
Peer reviewedElliott, Reed O., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1991
The effects of analog language teaching and natural language teaching on language generalization and long-term retention in 23 adults with autism and severe/profound mental retardation were examined. Natural language teaching was found to have many strengths and few drawbacks and to produce equal generalization and retention under conditions…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction
