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We trained three mothers with mental retardation to discuss categories of home dangers, ways to remedy those dangers, and to discuss emergencies with their eldest children following a multiple baseline procedure. Training the mothers concerning dangers and safety increased their knowledge while their discussions with their children increased the children's knowledge regarding those dangers and safety measures. No improvement in actual home safety was observed. This suggests that specific training to remediate home dangers is needed. In part two of the study, both the mothers' as well as the children's knowledge of emergencies improved as each emergency was introduced.
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Tymchuk, A.J., Andron, L. & Hagelstein, M. Training mothers with mental retardation to discuss home safety and emergencies with their children. J Dev Phys Disabil 4, 151–165 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046397
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