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Teaching Money Skills through Stimulus Class Formation, Exclusion, and Component Matching Methods: Three Case Studies.
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Stoddard, L. T.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1989
The article describes new methodologies for teaching monetary skills to mentally retarded individuals. Procedures were designed to produce emergent new behavior through stimulus class formation, exclusion, and matching of stimulus components. Three case studies demonstrate the methods. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consumer Education, Mental Retardation, Money Management
Development and Evaluation of the Active Treatment Client Rights Checklist.
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Gross, Edward J.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1994
This study describes the development of the Active Treatment Client Rights checklist (ATCR), which was designed to facilitate the assessment, monitoring, and implementation of readily observable client active treatment services for adults with developmental disabilities. The ATCR was found to be highly reliable, valid, and useful in enhancing…
Descriptors: Adults, Check Lists, Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
A Graduated Guidance Procedure for Teaching Self-Dressing Skills to Multihandicpped Children.
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Sisson, Lori A.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1988
The effectiveness of a graduated guidance procedure for increasing independence in dressing was examined in a multiple baseline analysis across behaviors with two multihandicapped children (ages nine and five). Results showed both children learned dressing skills with generalization of training to similar garments and maintenance of skills and 18…
Descriptors: Blindness, Case Studies, Generalization, Maintenance
Assessment and Training of Functional Conversation Behaviour.
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Ralph, Alan; Johnstone, Sabrina – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1992
The Verbal Interaction Analysis System is presented as an assessment of initial, dyadic conversations. Application of the VIAS to two case studies featuring mildly to moderately intellectually disabled adults shows how the VIAS provides an index of competence and assists in the development of specific treatment strategies. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Communication Skills, Developmental Disabilities
The Assessment of Mood and Affect in Developmentally Disabled Children and Adolescents: The Emotional Disorders Rating Scale.
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Feinstein, Carl; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1988
A review of existing emotional disorder assessment techniques confirmed that they are inappropriate for most children and adolescents with developmental disabilities and pay inadequate attention to affective symptoms in these subjects. A new instrument designed to evaluate mood and affect which has shown good interrater agreement is described.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Affective Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Disabilities