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Maranda A Trahan1, Jeanne M Donaldson, Matthew K McNabney

  • 1Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|April 18, 2014
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We examined whether adults with dementia could learn to emit a picture-based communication response and if this skill would maintain over time. Three women with moderate to severe dementia were taught to exchange a picture card for a highly preferred activity. All participants quickly learned to exchange the picture card and maintained this response without practice.

Keywords:
communicationdementiamaintenance

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