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Peer reviewedHatten, John T.; Hatten, Pequetti A. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1971
A language development program for a 6-year-old boy with limited language development combined an operant approach in the foster home, where both parents were speech clinicians, and daily 3-hour therapy sessions at a university speech and hearing clinic. (KW)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Delayed Speech, Exceptional Child Research, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedStrong, Catherine; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Drug Therapy, Exceptional Child Research
Bricker, William A.; Bricker, David D. – Except Children, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Exceptional Child Education, Imitation
MACAULAY, BARBARA D., ED.; SLOANE, HOWARD N., JR., ED. – 1968
INTENDED FOR SPEECH THERAPISTS, THEACHERS OF THE MENTALLY RETARDED, AND OTHERS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION, THE COLLECTION CONTAINS REPORTS BY VARIOUS AUTHORS ON SPEECH AND LANGUAGE MODIFICATION ATTEMPTS THAT HAVE UTILIZED OPERANT CONDITIONING PROCEDURES, AS WELL AS SEVERAL PAPERS ON BACKGROUND TOPICS. BACKGROUND PAPERS ON TEACHING TREAT ENVIRONMENTAL…
Descriptors: Aphasia, Articulation (Speech), Autism, Behavior Change
Peer reviewedKnight, Nancy F. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1974
Remedial speech, hearing, and language services are offered in a short-term, self-contained special language program for first and second grade children with severe language deficits but normal potential in performance areas. (LH)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Individualized Instruction, Language Handicaps
Peer reviewedEngland, Gene – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1974
The author compares two philosophies of language instruction (medical and behavioral models); evaluates four major elements of the teaching/learning process (stimulus, pupil response, consequation, and feedback); as critical variables in developing a lesson plan; and discusses the effects of selection of pupils, teachers and space on language…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Educational Philosophy, Exceptional Child Education, Language Handicaps
Download full textStark, Joel; And Others – 1972
Selected principles and procedures related to language training for nonverbal children are presented. The participating children are 3 to 6 years of age and are enrolled at a clinic for a minimal of 3 hours of individual therapy a week. The language problems vary considerably. The possibility of some central nervous system dysfunction is thought…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Exceptional Child Education, Guidelines
Peer reviewedAppelman, Karen; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1975
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Environment, Exceptional Child Research, Language Handicaps
Akiyama, Robert M. – 1976
Children with infantile autism display characteristics and behaviors that severely limit their growth and functioning on many levels. Research is reviewed in which principles of operant conditioning are implemented in procedures designed to investigate and/or modify the autistic child's behavior in the following areas: (a) social interaction, (b)…
Descriptors: Attention, Autism, Behavior Change, Emotional Adjustment
Peer reviewedGilbert, Susan Freedman – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1979
The paper describes the referral, diagnostic, interventive, and evaluative procedures used in a self-contained behaviorally oriented noncategorical program for preschool children with speech and language impairments and other developmental delays. (CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Developmental Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Programs
Gordon, Edmund W., Ed. – 1966
This IRCD Bulletin issue contains two brief papers. One, on contingency management, describes the application of this aspect of operant conditioning theory to the manipulation of behavior through reinforcement methods. Examples of the technique of managing high and low probability behaviors are offered as it is used with preschool children,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories
Bricker, Diane; And Others – 1973
Presented in the second of a two volume series is a language training program for developmentally delayed children from infancy to development of grammatically appropriate sentences. The second volume is said to have been developed in the Infant, Toddler, and Preschool Research and Intervention Project (Tennessee) and to focus on training the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Comprehension, Developmental Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
