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R G Miltenberger1, J A Roberts, S Ellingson

  • 1Psychology Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105, USA. miltenbe@badlands.nodak.edu

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|October 8, 1999
PubMed

Previous research has shown that behavioral skills training to teach sexual abuse prevention skills to women with mental retardation results in skill acquisition but poor generalization. In this investigation we evaluated procedures for enhancing generalization following training. Five women with mental retardation received 10 behavioral skills training sessions followed by in situ training when the skills did not fully generalize. Behavioral skills training resulted in skill acquisition and in situ training produced generalized responding during naturalistic assessments.

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