Citation

Bannerman DJ, Sheldon JB, Sherman JA. J. Appl. Behav. Anal. 1991; 24(3): 571-577.

Affiliation

Department of Human Development and Family Life, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Wiley-Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1752844

PMCID

PMC1279606

Abstract

Prompting, modeling, and differential reinforcement with client-chosen rewards were used to teach 3 nonverbal people with severe to profound mental retardation to exit their group homes at the sound of the house fire alarm, using a multiple baseline design. All 3 participants learned to exit independently in less than 2 min in all experimenter-initiated surprise fire drills and in the majority of staff-initiated surprise fire drills. Each participant was also able to exit from five areas of the house from which teaching was not done.