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  • Title: Initiating requests during community-based vocational training by students with mental retardation and sensory impairments.
    Author: Heller KW, Allgood MH, Ware S, Arnold SE, Castelle MD.
    Journal: Res Dev Disabil; 1996; 17(3):173-84. PubMed ID: 8743551.
    Abstract:
    Students with mental retardation and deafness or deaf-blindness often need some type of communication system to communicate effectively with communication partners during community-based vocational training. However, students may need specific training to learn how to initiate requests for items or assistance, a skill identified as critical for job success. Students were taught to initiate requests using dual communication boards and gestures. Data were recorded on student performance using a multiple-baseline probe design in which data were collected during baseline, intervention, and generalization phases. Students were able to initiate requests with 80% to 100% accuracy with the communication system at vocational sites. Training students to initiate requests may need to be targeted when students are first learning a job, as this is when most naturally occurring opportunities exist.
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