A study involving two college students with visual impairments which made them incapable of accommodating visually revealed that Ss improved recognition efficiency with feedback but did not generalize the efficiency from trained to untrained stimuli of similar complexity. (CL)

Third-grade children were taught efficient use of a self-monitoring strategy in preparing for recall. One group was trained on both free and serial recall; others on only one of the two tasks. A posttest was given one week after training, and a follow-up test of some children was given nine months later. (Author/BE)

Demonstrates a training technique for improving the referential performance of young children and for obtaining generalization of this training. Findings on generalization suggest that further investigation should reveal practical applications of the method for the classroom and clinic. (RH)

A longitudinal study of generalized effects of a language training program on the structural aspects of six severely retarded institutionalized adolescents' productive language revealed a strong relationship between the length of the trained forms and generalization. This effect was related to Ss' mean length of utterance. (Author/CL)

The paper examines research on recreation/leisure skills with moderately, severely, and profoundly mentally retarded persons. Studies are considered in four areas: antecedents that promote involvement with play materials, antecedent and consequent intervention strategies, task analysis efforts, and recreation/leisure skill maintenance and/or…

The study examined the effectiveness of a procedure for teaching parents of four mildly retarded children (8-10 years old) to be home reading tutors and generalization of the skills to school. Substantial increases in targeted tutor behaviors and corresponding improvements in child reading behaviors were observed. (Author/CL)

The authors review research on techniques to change social behavior, ranging from relatively simple manipulations of antecedent and consequent conditions to complex instructional "packages" involving didactic, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback procedures and examine issues involved in generalization of social skills training as well as ethical…

Results of the study involving five moderately/severely retarded adolescents indicated that picture prompts can be successully used to promote both acquisition and generalization of performance, and the subsequent training time on a novel task was reduced when the use of picture prompts had been previously trained. (Author/CL)

The study assessed effects of a transfer of stimulus control procedure on acquisition and cross-setting generalization of manual signs with four profoundly retarded young adults. Results showed that individuals acquired the trained signs and maintenance and generalization across settings and persons occurred but was highly variable between and…

The addition of self-monitoring to a social skill training program involving verbal training and role playing resulted in rapid generalization of appropriate responses to a supervision's instructions by behaviorally disordered adolescents in vocational classes. (Author/CL)

This article illustrates the use of generalizability theory in special education to estimate the reliability of a measure when there is more than one source of error in the universe of inference and how the effects from changing the number of items and/or raters can be evaluated. (Author)

In this study, a transfer of stimulus control procedure was used to establish generalized verb-noun instruction-following skills in two severely retarded boys. (Author/JH)

How can we conduct research when circumstances do not fit the requirements of formal research methods? What does it mean to say that results of research are valid and robust? What are the real products of research anyway? The term research has been appropriated in education by people with a vested interest in their own formalized methods and…

Two experiments investigated the effects of physical contact imitative training and verbal contact imitative training on the degree to which first and second graders exhibited generalized imitative affectionate and aggressive behavior. The effects of punishment as well as extinction on imitative behavior were analyzed. (DP)

Punisher effectiveness and generalization of an aversive stimulus, a rationale, and a combination of the two were investigated in a laboratory analog designed for punishment research, with 80 first and second grade subjects. Significantly greater suppression of deviant behavior and punishment generalization occurred when the punisher consisted of…