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TEACHING SEVERELY MULTIHANDICAPPED STUDENTS TO PUT ON THEIR OWN HEARING AIDS
Author(s) -
Tucker Dennis J.,
Berry Galen W.
Publication year - 1980
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.1980.13-65
Subject(s) - generalization , remedial education , psychology , multiple baseline design , replicate , dreyfus model of skill acquisition , mathematics education , medical education , medicine , statistics , mathematical analysis , mathematics , psychiatry , economic growth , economics , intervention (counseling)
Two experiments were conducted with six severely multihandicapped students with hearing impairments to: (a) train the six students to put on their own hearing aids independently, and (b) provide an empirical evaluation of a comprehensive instructional program for putting on a hearing aid by assessing acquisition, maintenance, and generalization of that skill across environments. All six students acquired the skill rapidly, with two students requiring remedial training on one step of the program. Because for two of the original three students the newly learned skill failed initially to generalize to other environments, a second experiment was initiated to assess generalization across environments as well as to replicate the efficiency of the acquisition program. When a variation of the multiple‐probe baseline technique was used, the behavior of three additional students generalized to other settings without direct training in those settings.