Biomedical subjects

P A Alberto

Publications and source records attributed to P A Alberto.

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PubMed1995

Effect of object and movement cues on receptive communication by preschool children with mental retardation.

Preschool children with mental retardation typically have delays in language comprehension that may result in difficulty understanding spoken messages. The effect of the systematic application of object and movement cues was investigated to determine whether either or both cues would facilitate children's comprehension of a partner's intended referent during play and snack activities. Children were presented with stimulus items that the communication partner referred to under three conditions: object cue and speech, movement cue and speech, or speech alone. All children identified the intended referents with fewer trials to criterion when object or movement cues were used with speech than when speech alone was employed.

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Use of self-operated auditory prompts by workers with moderate mental retardation to transition independently through vocational tasks.

The use of single- and multiple-word self-operated auditory prompting systems by five school-age workers with moderate mental retardation to independently transition between an ordered chain of tasks was examined in two vocational settings. The effectiveness of single- and multiple-word self-operated auditory prompts was assessed using an alternating treatment design within a multiple probe across settings. Analysis of the data revealed a significant effect on the number of independent task changes made by workers when using the single- or multiple-word auditory prompting system. When prompting systems were compared with one another, no significant differences were found in the number of independent task changes made by workers. Self-operated auditory prompts served as the stimulus control for desired behavior, they were effective for teaching workers with moderate mental retardation to manage their own task change behavior, and their use generalized across settings without additional training.

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Use of self-operated auditory prompts to decrease aberrant behaviors in students with moderate mental retardation.

We examined the effectiveness of self-operated auditory prompts when used to decrease the off-task and aberrant behaviors of two students with moderate mental retardation. Its purpose was to determine if self-operated auditory prompts could be effectively used by these individuals to decrease their off-task and aberrant behaviors in work settings and during transitional times between settings. A multiple-probe across settings design with a reversal and replication was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the self-operated auditory prompting system on aberrant student behaviors in school and community settings. Previous findings were replicated in this study that demonstrate that stimulus control can be achieved through the use of self-operated auditory prompts, and demonstrates that these prompts can serve to occasion a decrease in aberrant behaviors when used by individuals with moderate mental retardation in school and community settings.

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