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Establishing Communicative Alternatives to the Emission of Socially Motivated Excess Behavior: A Review.
Doss, Scott; Reichle, Joe – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1989
Literature is reviewed documenting the relationship between implementation of communication intervention and decreases in excess behavior in persons with severe disabilities. Operant conditioning and pragmatics are discussed in terms of their joint application to excess behavior, and a list of possible pragmatic intents of excess behavior is…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Communication (Thought Transfer), Intervention
Teaching the Conditional Use of Communicative Requests to Two School-Age Children with Severe Developmental Disabilities.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Reichle, Joe; Johnston, Susan S. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1999
Two boys, ages 7 and 9, with severe developmental disabilities were taught to use requests conditionally (when desired items were proximally distant) to obtain desired snack items. Results suggest that the conditioned discriminations were established quickly and both learners generalized their conditional discriminations to other contexts.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Children, Developmental Disabilities