An outcome management program for extending advances in choice research into choice opportunities for supported workers with severe multiple disabilities.

Dennis H. Reid, Carolyn W. Green, & Marsha B. Parsons (2003). An outcome management program for extending advances in choice research into choice opportunities for supported workers with severe multiple disabilities. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 36, 575-578.

We evaluated an outcome management program for increasing choice opportunities provided by 2 job coaches for 5 supported workers with severe multiple disabilities in a community job. The program involved specifying and monitoring behavioral outcomes among workers and staff, training staff, and supportive and corrective feedback. Increased choice provision occurred for both job coaches across a 1-year period. Results indicate how outcome management can help translate advances in choice research into routine practice.

DESCRIPTORS: outcome management, choice, supported work