A rapid method of toilet training the institutionalized retarded.
Incontinence is a major unsolved problem in the institutional care of the profoundly retarded.
A reinforcement and social analysis of incontinence was used to develop a procedure that would rapidly toilet train retardates and motivate them to remain continent during the day in their ward setting. These results indicate the present procedure is an effective, rapid, enduring, and administratively feasible solution to the problem of incontinence of the institutionalized retarded.