The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of two adults with different levels of mental retardation in a community employment site. The study's main purpose was to provide a direct replication across participants on a supported employment restroom cleaning program to assess generalization of training strategies. Dependent variables were the percent of steps performed independently on community training task, and the number of prompts needed to teach the targeted behavior. Further, the independent variable was the severity of disability or the level of retardation of the participants.
Results indicated that both participants learned to perform the tasks equally well. The person with moderate mental retardation learned the tasks in fewer session (15). The person with severe mental retardation learned the tasks in a greater number of sessions (21). Discussion concentrated on the implementation issues of providing supported employment to persons who have varying degrees of impairments.
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