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Teaching Adults With Severe and Profound Retardation to Exit Their Homes Upon Hearing the Fire Alarm

Year: 1991

Type: article

Abstract: Prompting, modeling, and differential reinforcement with client-chosen rewards were used to teach 3 nonverbal people with severe to profound mental retardation to exit their group homes at the sound of the house fire alarm, using a multiple baseline design. All 3 participants learned to exit independently in less than 2 min in all experimenter-initiated surprise fire drills and in the majority of staff-initiated surprise fire drills. Each participant was also able to exit from five areas of the house from which teaching was not done.

Source: Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

DOI: 10.1901/jaba.1991.24-571

Authors: Diane J. Bannerman, Jan B. Sheldon, James A. Sherman

Institution: University of Kansas

Language: English

Topic: Behavioral and Psychological Studies

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development