High-Probability Request Sequences and Young Children: Enhancing Compliance

ABSTRACT

High-probability request sequencing is an emerging ABA technique. Increasingly, studies are being conducted on the use of this technique as a means to increase compliance in persons with and without disabilities. Sixteen published empirical studies are reviewed in which high-probability request sequencing was used to increase compliance to requests in children 8 years of age and younger; results across the studies show effectiveness of the technique. A theoretical framework, methodological adequacies, utility, and implications for research are addressed.

KEYWORDS:

• Behavioral momentum
• high-probability requests
• interspersed requests
• noncompliance
• young children