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. 1976 Winter;9(4):433–444. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1976.9-433

Teaching pedestrian skills to retarded persons: generalization from the classroom to the natural environment.

T J Page, B A Iwata, N A Neef
PMCID: PMC1312038  PMID: 1002631

Abstract

Little attention has been given to teaching adaptive community skills to retarded persons. In this study, five retarded male students were taught basic pedestrian skills in a classroom- Training was conducted on a model built to simulate city traffic conditions. Each subject was taught five specific skills involved in street crossing in sequence, viz. intersection recognition, pedestrian-light skills, traffic-light skills, and skills for two different stop-sign conditions. Before, during, and after training, subjects were tested on generalization probes on model and under actual city traffic conditions. Results of a multiple-baseline design acorss both subjects and behaviors indicated that after receiving classroom training on the skills, each subject exhibited appropriate pedestrian skills under city traffic conditions. In addition, training in some skills appeared to facilitate performance in skills not yet trained.

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