Brigitte M. Johnson, Raymond G. Miltenberger, Kristin Egemo-Helm, Candice M. Jostad, Christopher Flessner, & Brian Gatheridge (2005).
Evaluation of behavioral skills training for teaching abduction-prevention skills to young children.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,
38, 67-78.
This study examined the effectiveness of individual behavioral
skills training in conjunction with in situ training in teaching
13 preschool children abduction prevention skills. Children's
performance was measured during baseline, training, and at 2-week,
1-month, and 3-month follow-ups using in situ assessments in which
abduction prevention skills were measured in
naturalistic settings. Results revealed that all the children
learned the skills and all the children available at the 2-week
and 1-month follow-ups maintained the skills at criterion level.
All but
3 children's criterion-level performances were maintained at
the 3-month follow-up as well.
DESCRIPTORS: behavioral skills training, children,
abduction prevention skills, in situ training, in situ assessment