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Peer reviewedIvancic, Martin T.; Bailey, Jon S. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1996
Two experiments with 15 individuals having profound mental retardation found difficulties in identifying reinforcers that were actually effective in treatment of chronic training needs. Research needs in evaluating training alternatives for people with profound multiple disabilities who move very little or who respond with very long latencies are…
Descriptors: Identification, Multiple Disabilities, Positive Reinforcement, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedFisher, Wayne; And Others – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1992
This study found that, compared to measuring approach behaviors to a variety of stimuli, a forced-choice stimulus preference assessment used with four young children with severe mental retardation resulted in greater differentiation among stimuli and better predicted which stimuli would result in higher levels of responding when presented…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Identification, Operant Conditioning, Positive Reinforcement
