Acquisition,Maintenance and generalization of Vending Machine Purchasing Skills by Moderately Handicapped Students

Abstract

Four elementary age moderately handicapped students were taught to use a picture-prompt prosthetic to make vending machine purchases. A multiple-probe design indicated that: (a) all students reached criterion on the vending machine use task; (b) partial generalization to untrained machines occurred; and (c) total skill maintenance as much as 6 weeks beyond the termination of instruction was exhibited by three of the four students.