Training maintenance workers with developmental disabilities to self-manage unscheduled task demands with a pictorial pocket-prompt system.
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Title
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Training maintenance workers with developmental disabilities to self-manage unscheduled task demands with a pictorial pocket-prompt system.
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Identifier
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AAI9820571
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identifier
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9820571
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Creator
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Pecoraro, Maureen Ann.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Claire L. Poulson
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Date
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1998
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Industrial | Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations | Business Administration, Management
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Abstract
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A multiple-baseline design was used to measure the effects of most-to-least physical prompting on training maintenance workers with developmental disabilities to use a self-management pocket-prompt system to complete unscheduled tasks and return to scheduled tasks within allotted times. Three full-time maintenance workers at an agency for persons with developmental disabilities participated in the following phases: Baseline; Pretesting/training; Pocket-Prompt Training & Fading; Maintenance; and, Follow-up. Each prompt system contained two textual/pictorial representations of scheduled tasks and four representations of unscheduled tasks. Two unscheduled task cards were used in training, and two were used as generalization probes. Each worker demonstrated an ability to use the pocket-prompt system to monitor unscheduled task demands after physical prompts were withdrawn. Each worker's percentage of steps completed in one- and two-unscheduled task-sequences increased dramatically during treatment. All workers maintained the response through maintenance and follow-up sessions. Generalization was demonstrated by each of the workers in this study.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
