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Teaching Telephone Skills to a Woman with Mental Handicap through Task Analysis and Stimulus Shaping

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Mary Hogan
Mary Hogan
Affiliation:
St. Saviour's Convent, Liverpool
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Abstract

A woman with moderate mental handicap was taught to use a public telephone. The project involved teaching, first, recognition of some numbers, using a stimulus-shaping procedure; and second, the steps involved in using a public call box. Such difficulties as were encountered in the project were not those anticipated, underlining the need for individually tailored programmes of teaching for people with mental handicaps.

Type
Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 133 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1988

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