ERRORLESS COMPLIANCE TO PARENTAL REQUESTS .2. INCREASING CLINICAL PRACTICALITY THROUGH ABBREVIATION OF TREATMENT PARAMETERS

Ducharme and Popynick (1993) recently examined ''errorless'' compliance training, a treatment for serious noncompliance that requires no physical consequences, as an alternative to more conventional compliance training approaches. They demonstrated the efficacy of the intervention for producing increases in generalized compliance and reductions in maladaptive behavior in four children with developmental disabilities. The strategy was labor-intensive, however. In the present study, we examined an abbreviated version of errorless compliance training that was designed to increase the clinical efficiency of the intervention with four children with developmental disabilities and two nondelayed siblings. Treatment results and generalization were comparable to those found in Ducharme and Popynick (1993), indicating that the intervention can be condensed along several treatment parameters without loss of effects obtained with the expanded version. The findings also suggested the suitability of the intervention for children without developmental disabilities who exhibit serious noncompliance.