A Comparison of Graduated Guidance and Increasing Assistance in Teaching Adults with Severe Handicaps Leisure Skills.

Demchak, MaryAnn

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Publication Date: 1989

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A Comparison of Graduated Guidance and Increasing Assistance in Teaching Adults with Severe Handicaps Leisure Skills.

Demchak, MaryAnn

Education and Training in Mental Retardation, v24 n1 p45-55 Mar 1989

Five adults with severe handicaps were taught leisure skills using two instructional prompt-fading procedures. Increasing assistance and graduated guidance were found to be equivalent in instructional time to criterion. Increasing assistance required fewer trials to criterion, but resulted in a larger percentage of errors to criterion than graduated guidance. (Author/JDD)

Descriptors: Adults, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention, Leisure Education, Prompting, Severe Mental Retardation, Skill Development, Teaching Methods, Training

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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