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The Use of Wrist Weights to Reduce Self-Injury Maintained by Sensory Reinforcement.
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Van Houten, Ron – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1993
This study effectively eliminated face-slapping behavior in a 10-year-old boy with severe developmental disability and autistic characteristics. The subject wore wrist weights for up to 30 minutes each day. Face slapping did not occur during a follow-up check conducted five months after study completion. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Case Studies
Going "All Out" Pharmacologically? A Re-Examination of Berkman and Meyer's "Alternative Strategies and Multiple Outcomes in Remediation of Severe Self-Injury: Going 'All Out' Nonaversively."
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Linscheid, Thomas R.; Landau, Richard J. – Mental Retardation, 1993
A reevaluation of data from Berkman and Meyer (1988), a study supporting the effectiveness of positive-oriented programing approaches with persons with mental retardation, suggests that medication, especially the introduction of Thorazine (with subsequent increases of dosage), may have been related to reductions in the client's self-injurious…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Case Studies
What's Straw and What's Real: A Reply to Linscheid and Landau.
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Meyer, Luanna H.; Berkman, Karen A. – Mental Retardation, 1993
This response to a critique (EC 605 541) of the authors' case study, supporting the effectiveness of positive-oriented programing approaches with persons with mental retardation, offers follow-up information on the individual involved, including his complete medication history, and defends the view that the self-determination supported by their…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Case Studies