Further Refinements and Applications of Say-do Correspondence Training

Say-do correspondence describes a chain of events in which an individual says they will do something and follows through with what they said they would do. This two-part dissertation (a) systematically reviews the larger omnibus, correspondence training, and (b) evaluates the efficacy of say-do correspondence to address mealtime behavior problems—a novel application of this procedure. In Chapter 2, a review of the correspondence training literature employing single case experimental design methodology revealed that say-do correspondence represents an overwhelming majority of the existing correspondence training literature, but lacks quality and rigor characteristics, including measures of procedural integrity and social validity, and sufficiency of data to confidently measure the presence of an effect. In the study presented in Chapter 3, we observed substantial increases in independent eating for a child using say-do correspondence training with one group of foods and moderate increases in the other two groups of foods.