DURATION‐BASED MEASURES OF PREFERENCE FOR VOCATIONAL TASKS

Abstract

We compared results from two preference assessments with data on extended performance of vocational tasks by 4 participants with developmental disabilities. All participants engaged in one task exclusively when seven tasks were available concurrently during a 5‐min multiple‐stimulus assessment. By contrast, all participants exhibited high levels of engagement in most tasks when the tasks were presented singly for 5 min, and these data showed a high degree of correspondence with those obtained during extended (60‐min) vocational assessments.