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Teaching dancercise to persons who are mentally handicapped: Programming transfer of stimulus control to a community setting
Author(s) -
O'Conner Yvonne M.,
Cuvo Anthony J.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
behavioral interventions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.605
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1099-078X
pISSN - 1072-0847
DOI - 10.1002/bin.2360040403
Subject(s) - psychology , multiple baseline design , mentally retarded , stimulus control , stimulus (psychology) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , audiology , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , medicine , nicotine , intervention (counseling)
This study demonstrated procedures to promote the acquisition and transfer of stimulus control of an age‐appropriate exercise skill. Three young adults diagnosed as mentally handicapped in a residential setting were taught a commercial dancercise routine during individual training sessions using a package of instructional procedures. A combination of a multiple baseline across subjects and a multiple baseline across response groups design showed that skill acquisition occurred only after each subject received training, and that performance did not generalize across exercise response groups. Training progressively incorporated more participants, new teachers, and new settings. Ultimately, subjects performed in a community dancercise class attended by 100 nonhandicapped persons.