Teaching employees with intellectual disabilities to manage changing work routines using varied sight-word checklists

Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 31-42

  Minarovic, Timothy J ^a   Bambara, Linda M ^a,b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mountaintop Campus   (United States)

Author keywords

Antecedent prompts; Generalization; Multiple exemplar training; Self management; Sight words; Supported employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547756304     PISSN: 15407969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2511/rpsd.32.1.31     Document Type: Article

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