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Prompting Strategies for those with a Severe Mental Handicap: A Comparison of Procedures Using only Response Prompts with a Procedure Combining Stimulus and Response Prompts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Gerard Riley
Gerard Riley
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Department of Psychology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
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Prompts are assessed in terms of their ability to convey an understanding of the task to those with a severe mental handicap. On this basis, it is suggested that the most effective strategy for teaching manipulative tasks to this group may be one which combines stimulus and response prompts. Two case studies compared this procedure with two procedures which used response prompts only. The combined procedure was more effective in both studies. The studies also demonstrated the applicability of stimulus prompts to teaching the motor, as well as the visual, components of manipulative tasks.

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Clinical Section
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 193 - 206
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1990

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