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Effects of Video-Assisted Training on Employment-Related Social Skills of Adults with Severe Mental Retardation
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
  • Robert L. Morgan, Utah State University
  • Charles L. Salzberg, Utah State University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-1992
Abstract

Two studies investigated effects of video-assisted training on employment-related social skills of adults with severe mental retardation. In video-assisted training, participants discriminated a model's behavior on videotape and received feedback from the trainer for responses to questions about video scenes. In the first study, 3 adults in an employment program participated in video-assisted training to request their supervisor's assistance when encountering work problems. Results indicated that participants discriminated the target behavior on video but effects did not generalize to the work setting for 2 participants until they rehearsed the behavior. In the second study, 2 participants were taught to fix and report four work problems using video-assisted procedures. Results indicated that after participants rehearsed how to fix and report one or two work problems, they began to fix and report the remaining problems with video-assisted training alone.

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Originally published by the Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior.

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Citation Information
Morgan, R. L., & Salzberg, C. L. (1992). Effects of video-assisted training on employment-related social skills of adults with severe mental retardation. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 25, 365 – 383.