ERIC Number: ED295377
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Oct
Pages: 62
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
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Using the Interrupted Behavior Chain Strategy To Teach Initial Communication Skills to Students with Severe Disabilities.
Hunt, Pam; Goetz, Lori
The handbook describes a method of teaching communication skills to students with severe disabilities (severely and profoundly retarded, trainable mentally retarded, autistic, deaf blind, and severely multihandicapped). In the interrupted behavior chain procedure, a routinized activity in a natural setting is interrupted and the child is taught to request an item needed to complete the activity. Successful performance is rewarded not only by the item requested but also by the opportunity to continue and complete the ongoing routine. After an introduction explaining the approach and the research supporting it, the next section focuses on classroom applications in discussions of: students for whom the strategy is appropriate, the targeted communication responses, selecting behavior chains and contexts for instruction, implementing behavior chain instruction, and monitoring progress. Appended are sample programs including objectives, task analyses, procedures, data sheets, and performance data. A list of 39 references is also included. (DB)
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Researchers; Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: San Francisco State Univ., CA. Dept. of Special Education.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A