Providing a less restrictive environment for profoundly retarded persons by teaching independent walking skills.

A reinforcement plus interruption method of eliminating behavioral stereotypy of profoundly retarded persons.

Stereotyped responses have been shown to be eliminated by an overcorrection-reinforcement program. The present study evaluated response-interruption as an alternative to the overcorrection component with seven profoundly retarded adults. During the baseline praise condition. stereotypy occurred during 66'!0 of the observations for the seven profoundly retarded adults but decreased to Jess than ...

Reducing the Self - StiIllulatory Behavior of a Profoundly Retarded

Sensory awareness training procedures were used to reduce the selfstimulatory behavior of a profoundly retarded female. Self-stimulatory behaviors were directly observed and recorded using a 15-second momentary time sample procedure for 10-minute recording periods. An alternating treatment design was used to compare the effects of treatment and nontreatment. Tactile, olfactory, and gustatory ma...

Residential Programming for Mentally Retarded Persons

Less Restrictive Constructs for Structured Programs∗

The syntax and formal semantics of new control constructs that resemble Dijkstra’s guarded commands [1] is given. Like programs built using the standard “structured programming” constructs, programs built using these constructs are easily parsed into a hierarchy of components and the meaning of the constructed program is a simple function of the semantics of its components. Program structures t...

Teaching Extremely Retarded Children

This booklet is a short, concise paper-bound report dealing with teaching techniques and procedures which have actually been used in a classroom with children who were extremely retarded. The I.Q.'s of these children ranged from 30 to 50, and their mental ages from 3 to 5 years. The reader is given clear and very simple instructions on how to give lessons in pasting, art patterns, making Easter...