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Romer, Lyle T.; Schoenberg, Beth – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1991
The staff of an apartment-based residential support program was taught to use behavior interruption strategies to elicit requesting functions from two women with deaf-blindness and developmental disabilities. Results found the strategies to be both quickly assimilated by the staff and effective in increasing request rates from the subjects.…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Deaf Blind
Download full textReid, Dennis H.; Parsons, Marsha B. – 1994
This manual describes a program for training direct service staff to teach adaptive skills to people who have severe disabilities. Research has demonstrated that the Teaching-Skills Training Program improves on-the-job work performance of staff while teaching clients, requires a small amount of trainer and trainee time (typically less than one…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Attendants, Behavior Change, Daily Living Skills
