Instruction and self-regulation in mentally retarded adults in a vocational setting

Spence, Brenda H.; Whitman, Thomas L.

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“…Perhaps because of the limited verbal skills typically demonstrated by these individuals, investigators have been reluctant to attempt to teach them a procedure that requires the use of language (Meichenbaum, 1990;Spence & Whitman, 1990); (b) few investigations of independent performance among persons with more severe disabilities have been conducted beyond relatively controlled environments (Browder & Shapiro, 1985). This dearth of studies may be due to the few numbers of persons with severe disabilities that typically spend time in integrated settings.…”

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Teaching Persons with Severe Disabilities to Use Self-Instruction in Community Settings: An Analysis of Applications

Hughes

Agran

1993

Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps

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Community instruction for individuals with severe disabilities rarely incorporates programming for independence. This article reviews and analyzes investigations of the effects of self-instructional programs on increasing the independence of persons with moderate orsevere mentalretardation in integrated environments. The conceptual role of self-instruction in promoting behavior change is discussed and variations in selfinstructional teaching approaches areanalyzed. Overall, thefeasibility ofteaching persons withsevere disabilities to self-instruct to promote acquisition, generalization, and maintenance across diverse skills is supported. Methodological issues related to investigations of selfinstruction are discussed. recommendations for implementing self-instructional programs are provided. and directions for future research areproposed.

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confidence: 98%