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EFFECTS OF COMMUNITY‐BASED, VIDEOTAPE, AND FLASH CARD INSTRUCTION OF COMMUNITY‐REFERENCED SIGHT WORDS ON STUDENTS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION
Author(s) -
Cuvo Anthony J.,
Klatt Kevin P.
Publication year - 1992
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.1992.25-499
Subject(s) - psychology , sight , stimulus control , session (web analytics) , flash (photography) , audiology , psychiatry , computer science , medicine , physics , astronomy , world wide web , nicotine , art , visual arts
Community‐referenced sight words and phrases were taught to adolescents with mild and moderate mental retardation using three instructional methods in two locations. Words were presented on flash cards in a school setting, on videotape recordings in a school setting, and on naturally occurring signs in the community. During each session, participants were taught one third of the words in each of these conditions and were then tested at the community sites. A constant prompt delay procedure was used to promote stimulus control to the experimenter's cue initially and then to transfer control to the textual stimuli used for training. A multiple baseline across participants design was employed. Results showed rapid acquisition of the community‐referenced sight words in all three training conditions and generalization from the flash card and videotape conditions to the community sites.