Effects of Parent-Administered, Home-Based, High-Probability Request Sequences on Compliance by Children with Developmental Disabilities

In the high-probability request sequence (high-p) procedure, a requester presents a rapid sequence of requests a child is known to be likely to comply with, followed by a request to perform a response for which there is a low probability of compliance (low-p request). To extend previous research fro...

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Published inChild & family behavior therapy Vol. 27; no. 3
Main Authors Humm, Stephen P, Blampied, Neville M, Liberty, Kathleen A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The Haworth Press Inc 2005
Subjects
Behavior Modification
Compliance (Psychology)
Developmental Disabilities
Foreign Countries
Guides
New Zealand
Parent Role
Parents
Probability
Program Effectiveness
New Zealand
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Summary:In the high-probability request sequence (high-p) procedure, a requester presents a rapid sequence of requests a child is known to be likely to comply with, followed by a request to perform a response for which there is a low probability of compliance (low-p request). To extend previous research from institutional and research settings to home settings, parents of three developmentally-delayed children who were noncompliant were taught to use the high-p procedure at home using a manual, supplemented by only brief therapist instruction. In addition they were taught to use a fading procedure to enhance the maintenance of any gains in compliance. The manual-based, high-p procedure, implemented in a multiple-baseline across behaviors replicated across children design, increased compliance with at least one targeted low-p response in all children, and two thirds of the targeted responses maintained gains in compliance at follow-up, after fading of the high-p procedure.
ISSN:0731-7107
DOI:10.1300/J019v27n03_03