TRAINING AND MAINTAINING A RETARDED CHILD'S PROPER EATING1

摘要: The present study was designed to explore whether motivational procedures are needed maintain a retardate's continued use of previously trained eating skills. A profoundly retarded child who ate food with her hands by manual guidance procedure eat properly spoon, but the still did not spoon after having learned do so. When motivational-maintenance applied, begin properly. maintenance discontinued, returned hands. Proper when applied again; These results demonstrate that training proper