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McDonnell, Andrea P. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1993
This paper reviews the rationale and behavioral interventions commonly used for teaching compliance to individuals with mental retardation and the role of ethics in the use of such interventions. The paper examines issues in deciding whether compliance is an appropriate objective for an individual and whether interventions designed to achieve…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Compliance (Psychology)
Tyson, Madalyn E.; Spooner, Fred – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1991
A retrospective evaluation of restrictive behavior programs in a state residential facility for persons with mental retardation found beneficial behavioral effects. The behavior programs reviewed utilized isolation timeout, exclusion timeout, response cost, prone restraint, seated restraint, timeout device, nonexclusion timeout, standing…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Contingency Management, Extinction (Psychology)
Brigham, Frederick J.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1992
Eight public school adolescent students with mild mental retardation and severely disruptive classroom behaviors participated in a cooperative behavior management intervention in which student teams were rewarded for appropriate classroom behavior. Rewarding both teams and individuals was most successful in decreasing inappropriate behavior in all…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques
