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Ishuin, Tifanie – Behavior Analyst Today, 2009
This study focused on the utility and applicability of brief functional analysis in general education settings. The purpose of the study was to first identify the environmental variables maintaining noncompliance through a brief functional analysis, and then to design and implement a functionally equivalent intervention. The participant exhibited…
Descriptors: Intervention, General Education, Preschool Education, Behavior Modification
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Pitman, Melanie J. – Behavior Analyst Today, 2007
A brief functional analysis was conducted in an analogue setting to identify the maintaining variables for upright walking in a woman with developmental disabilities supported in an outpatient setting. All conditions required modification, since treatment outcomes were intended to increase, rather than decrease, the target behavior. The…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Modification, Positive Reinforcement
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Murrell, Amy R.; Wilson, Kelly G.; LaBorde, Cicely T.; Drake, Chad E.; Rogers, Leslie J. – Behavior Analyst Today, 2008
This study investigated the relationship between parenting stress and relational conditioning. Fourteen students who were not mothers, 14 mothers who reported high parenting stress and 14 mothers with low parenting stress completed two matching-to-sample (MTS) computer tasks, each requiring formation of three 3-member classes. The first MTS task…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Mothers, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship
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Cautilli, Joseph; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris – Behavior Analyst Today, 2006
This study presents an experimental analogue of resistance in the consultation process. Using an ABAB reversal design, the experimenter measured the ecological effects of teacher resistant behaviors on consultant therapeutic behavior. The study defined therapeutic behaviors as teaching, confronting and problem identification, analysis, and…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Consultation Programs, Behavior Modification, Teacher Behavior
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Dziewolska, Halina; Cautilli, Joseph – Behavior Analyst Today, 2006
Behavior analysts have spent relatively little time in designing interventions to enhance motor development in typically developing infants and children. This study examines the effect of a motor training package consisting of opportunity to respond and practice (standing the infant and letting her hold the fingers of the experimenter),…
Descriptors: Motor Development, Infants, Toys, Psychomotor Skills
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Topping, Keith J.; Flynn, Brian – Behavior Analyst Today, 2004
Over three hundred school psychologists were surveyed about their working practice and their views with regard to treating seriously emotionally disturbed adolescents. The survey questionnaire sought the following details: 1) Demographic information; 2) Professional opinions about serious emotional disturbance; 3) Personal working practice with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Emotional Disturbances, School Psychologists, Counselor Attitudes
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Luiselli, James K.; Ricciardi, Joseph N.; Zubow, Marjorie; Laster, Kimberly – Behavior Analyst Today, 2004
We evaluated contingent and noncontingent practice of an alternative behavior (appropriate play) as intervention for stereotypy that occurred with two play objects in a 5-year old boy with autism. Contingent practice was implemented as a consequence for stereotypy, and the rate of noncontingent practice was matched (yoked) to that schedule. On…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Repetition, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Ryan, Carolyn S.; Hemmes, Nancy S. – Behavior Analyst Today, 2005
The current study examined instructors' discrete-trial teaching responses after a performance-based training procedure in which instructors were required to demonstrate criterion-level performance on written and oral quizzes and on performance demonstrations. Twelve discrete-trial teaching responses were labeled and operationally defined.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Behavior Modification, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Weiss, Mary Jane; Delmolino, Lara – Behavior Analyst Today, 2006
The present study suggests that initial learning rates of young children with autism receiving early, intensive, home-based behavioral intervention are moderately correlated with outcome variables after four years of treatment. 20 children with autism who had Childhood Autism Rating Scale scores between 37.5 and 58 and Vineland Adaptive Behavior…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Modification