Fading allows counselors to assist children in acquiring, with minimal frustration and errors, independent behavior at an age earlier than previously thought possible. Beginning responsibility training at an early age will enhance the development of the pupil's capacity for self direction and will increase decision making skills. (Author)

Reinforcement techniques for increasing the attention span of retarded students is investigated. (CD)

The author relates contemporary work on imitation and training to the historic contributions of Itard and Sequin. (RD)

Describes a Title I project whose purpose was "to determine if a series of three group and three individual instruction sessions with classroom teachers were adequate to train them in the use of basic behavioral modification techniques, by judging whether or not this instruction was evidenced by their management of children in the classroom."…

The program for training speech therapists at the George Washington University Speech and Hearing Clinic is discussed, and methods used by the therapists are described. (DB)

Techniques used by five interns build upon establishment of a strong relationship with the client, client acknowledgement of responsibility for his behaviors, acceptance by counselor of himself, search for hidden client feelings, and reinforcement. (CJ)

This research was supported by Research Grant No. 30-200-50, Indiana University Foundation, Indiana University.

Research by the U.S. Office of Education under the provisions of the Cooperative Research Program (Wisconsin Research and Development Center for Cognitive Learning).

Materials used in this research were developed in the course of Project No. 5-0566-2-12-1 supported by the Office of Education.