The Effects of a Retarded Child's Social Initiations on the Behavior of Severely Retarded School-Aged Peers.

To increase the social responsiveness of two severely retarded and withdrawn children (six and ten years old), a five-year-old mildly retarded peer was trained to emit social approach behaviors using a procedure in which edible reinforcement was delivered by the trained peer contingent upon positive social response by the target subjects. (Author/CL)