ABSTRACT
The pause, prompt and praise procedures became the subject of a series of programmes which appeared on Pacific Television intended to bring them to the attention of the general public and to encourage their more general use. The project was strongly linked to the earlier reading research of Professor Marie Clay reported in her book Reading: the patterning of complex behaviour. The procedures which came to be known as pause, prompt and praise were developed by the researchers as the result of their interest in several related areas at that time. Ted Glynn and his associates were interested in the importance of setting events, believing that behaviour can be changed by altering the conditions or environmental context in which it occurs. The procedures were explained and the parents were then asked to conduct a reading session using as many of the instructions as possible.
