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Rebecca S. Ward; Stephanie H. Jones; Tatiana Pullar; Celia Celona – Education and Treatment of Children, 2025
Demand fading involves the removal and gradual reintroduction of demands and has been shown to effectively reduce escape-maintained challenging behavior. However, it is currently unclear if there are common demand fading practices when demand fading is used as an initial intervention rather than as a method for schedule thinning after another…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Reinforcement, Intervention, Learning Processes
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Chazin, Kate T.; Velez, Marina S.; Ledford, Jennifer R. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2022
Individuals with disabilities may engage in challenging behavior to escape aversive stimuli, like academic tasks or non-preferred foods. Interventions to reduce these behaviors often employ escape extinction; that is, the implementer withholds escape following challenging behavior. Escape extinction can increase risk of injury, restrict autonomy,…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Intervention, Behavior Modification, Disabilities
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Dart, Evan H.; Radley, Keith C.; Mason, Benjamin A.; Allen, Justin P. – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
Students with developmental disabilities have been found to exhibit higher rates of problem behavior in the classroom than their typically developing peers. Effectively addressing these students' behavior concerns requires the identification of interventions that can be implemented in an educational setting. Furthermore, matching intervention…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Developmental Disabilities, Intervention
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Lipschultz, Joshua L.; Wilder, David A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2017
Noncompliance is a common behavior problem exhibited by typically developing children, as well as individuals with intellectual disabilities, and is correlated with a number of psychiatric diagnoses later in life. We begin this manuscript by describing the definition and prevalence of noncompliance. We then review the assessment procedures that…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Compliance (Psychology), Definitions, Incidence
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Rempel, Kim – Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, 2012
Interest in the use of mindfulness-based activities with children and youth is growing. The article evaluates empirical evidence related to the use of mindfulness-based activities to facilitate enhanced student learning and to support students' psychological, physiological, and social development. It also provides an overview of interventions that…
Descriptors: Evidence, Foreign Countries, Social Development, Comparative Analysis
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Obrzut, John E. – School Psychology Review, 1981
The need for valid and reliable neuropsychological assessment procedures for differential assessment of learning disorders in children is emphasized. The neuropsychological procedures outlined are based on the theory that learning acquisition represents a hierarchy of information processing skills. A hierarchical model along with related…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education