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  • Title: Teaching autistic and severely handicapped children to recruit praise: acquisition and generalization.
    Author: Harchik AE, Harchik AJ, Luce SC, Sherman JA.
    Journal: Res Dev Disabil; 1990; 11(1):77-95. PubMed ID: 2300688.
    Abstract:
    Autistic and severely handicapped children were taught to ask questions (e.g., "How did I do?") and make requests (e.g., "Check it out") to recruit or set the occasion for praise from an adult. Teaching occurred during structured sessions in a community-based group home. Generalization of the children's use of these behaviors was evaluated during other activities in the teaching area, with other staff members in different areas of the home, and at each child's academic classroom. The children learned the behaviors to cue or set the occasion for praise independently and used these behaviors in all of the generalization settings. In the generalizations settings, the children were frequently successful in recruiting praise.
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