Advaces in education for persons with servere handicaps

Abstract

The recent trends and practices in working with individuals with severe handicaps are many and varied. Politics and social values have steered technological advancements in certain directions and away from others, but it is clear that today teachers, parents, and other professionals have more effective treatment procedures available for individuals with severe handicaps than ever before. This paper discusses the concomitant developments in behavioral techniques for persons with severe handicaps and ethical trends for providing services that have occurred over the past ten years.

Clinical Implications of Temperamental Characteristics in Young Children with Developmental Disabilities

“…Techniques such as silent physical prompting, back-chaining, and setting up materials so that the child's response is likely to be correct are examples of errorless learning techniques (Howard & Williams, 1991). The idea is to increase the child's exposure to correct responses and to decrease his or her experience with failure.…”