This study investigated the effects of an instructional package incorporating videotaped self-assessment, self-modeling, discrimination training, and behavioral rehearsal on the cooperative classroom behavior of two second-grade children with learning and behavior problems. Observations were made of selected classroom behaviors in three different classes each day. Results indicate that the intervention was effective in helping young children acquire cooperative classroom behaviors, generalize these behaviors to settings not a part of the training environment, and maintain these behaviors in both the training and generalization settings. The video intervention package also was effective in reducing inappropriate behaviors in the training and generalization settings. Further, there was a marked reduction in variability of behavior for both children. The results suggest that video-based modeling, coupled with discrimination training and rehearsal, is an effective and efficient intervention for early elementary school children with learning and behavior problems.
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