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Sisson, L. A. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
A new approach to behavioral control with individuals having both visual impairments and multiple disabilities stresses the use of positive intervention strategies, bases treatment on functional assessments of challenging responses, and emphasizes broad changes in the lifestyles of individuals. Case examples illustrate applications. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Case Studies

Gense, Marilyn H.; Gense, D. Jay – RE:view, 1994
This paper offers guidelines to compare the characteristics observed in children with autism and blindness and those observed in children with blindness alone. It distinguishes between stereotypic behaviors (blindisms) in blind individuals and similar stereotypic behaviors of children with autism. A table presents typical behavior patterns of…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Blindness, Children
Guess, Doug; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1990
Two studies with 50 students (ages 1 to 21) with severe, profound, and multiply handicapping conditions examined similarities and differences in behavior state conditions. Among findings were that profile groups could be identified by behavior state patterns and that students spent an average of 42 percent of classroom time in state conditions not…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Disabilities

Stough, Laura M.; Baker, Lynn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1999
Offers guidelines to teachers for identifying depression in students with mental retardation. Discusses prevalence and symptoms of depression, causes of depression, difficulty of diagnosis in students with mental retardation, detecting symptoms in the classroom, treatment of depression, and psychological services. Inserts list ideas for helping…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Clinical Diagnosis, Depression (Psychology), Disability Identification