Offers a six-step procedure for developing and implementing a response cost system for changing problem classroom behaviors of students with learning disabilities. Steps described are establishing classroom rules, rewarding compliance, selecting reinforcers, reducing noncompliance through response cost consequences, following through on…

Parents can help their children with learning and/or behavior problems adjust to junior high school by implementing a home-school contingency plan in which certain privileges are made contingent on good social or academic behavior at school. Suggestions are offered for establishing, implementing, and terminating (or continuing) a successful plan.…

Ways to promote generalization of social skills of students with learning disabilities (LD) are considered. Approaches include: sequential modification, introducing naturally maintaining contingencies, training sufficient exemplars, training across settings, training loosely, using indiscriminable contingencies, programming common stimuli, and…