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THE GENERALIZATION EFFECTS OF PARENT TRAINING ACROSS STIMULUS SETTINGS
Author(s) -
Miller Susan Joyce,
Sloane Howard N.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1901/jaba.1976.9-355
Subject(s) - stimulus generalization , psychology , generalization , multiple baseline design , nonverbal communication , stimulus (psychology) , developmental psychology , parent training , stimulus control , reinforcement , audiology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , perception , medicine , psychiatry , mathematical analysis , mathematics , neuroscience , nicotine , intervention (counseling)
Five parents of nonverbal children were trained in two home settings to modify antecedents and consequences to their children's vocalizations. Generalization effects of the parent training on both the parent's and children's behaviors under different stimulus conditions were investigated using multiple‐baseline designs. Increases in parent prompting and reinforcing their children's vocalizations generalized only minimally to a new setting in the home where parent training had not occurred. Child increases in vocalizations produced by the parents in the training settings did generalize to this new setting in the home. There was minimal generalization of child vocalizations to a free‐play setting at school. In a formal speech session conducted by a behavior specialist at school, only one child showed definite increases in acquisition rate as a function of the parents starting to train the sound at home.