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CO‐WORKER IMPLEMENTED JOB TRAINING: THE USE OF COINCIDENTAL TRAINING AND QUALITY‐CONTROL CHECKING ON THE FOOD PREPARATION SKILLS OF TRAINEES WITH MENTAL RETARDATION
Author(s) -
Likins Marilyn,
Salzberg Charles L.,
Stowitschek Joseph J.,
LignugarisKraft Ben,
Curl Rita
Publication year - 1989
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.1989.22-381
Subject(s) - psychology , control (management) , medical education , quality (philosophy) , multiple baseline design , training (meteorology) , correctness , applied psychology , psychiatry , medicine , computer science , intervention (counseling) , philosophy , physics , epistemology , artificial intelligence , meteorology , programming language
In two studies, co‐workers of persons with disabilities were taught to use coincidental training procedures while completing their own jobs. In Study 1, the effects of coincidental training on the salad‐making skills of 3 trainees with mild and moderate mental retardation were evaluated. Coincidental training by co‐workers resulted in improved accuracy of the salad‐making skills of the trainees. In Study 2, trainees were also coincidentally taught to make quality‐control checks of their salads. An alternating treatments and multiple baseline design indicated that the trainees more readily acquired the skills when taught to check the correctness of their work.