Say-Do-Report Training To Change Chronic Behaviors in Mentally Retarded Subjects.

A say-do-report correspondence training was implemented to break the functions of present conditions given by a history of contingencies maintaining chronic inadequate patterns of behavior in two adolescents with mental retardation and language deficits. All behaviors changed and were maintained, even after eliminating the components involved in the say-do-report procedure. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)