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Stereotypic Responding: A Review of Intervention Research.
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LaGrow, Steven J.; Repp, Alan C. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1984
Over 60 studies using behavioral strategies to suppress sterotypic responding in handicapped individuals were reviewed to identify populations studied, behavior observed, interventions employed, and relative effectiveness of interventions used alone or in combinations. Discussion center on relative effectiveness of interventions and their…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Disabilities, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Reducing Stereotypic Responding of Retarded Persons by the Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior
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Repp, Alan C.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Reducing Inappropriate Behaviors in Classrooms and in Individual Sessions Through DRO Schedules of Reinforcement
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Repp, Alan C.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1976
Three experiments were conducted in a variety of settings to test the effectiveness of differential reinforcement of other behavior in reducing high rates of inappropriate behavior in 6 mildly and severely retarded children (8-14 years old). (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Effects on Stereotypy and Other Challenging Behavior of Matching Rates of Instruction to Free-Operant Rates of Responding.
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Johnson, Jesse W.; Van Laarhoven, Toni; Repp, Alan C. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2002
A study tested whether four students with mental retardation would substitute task-related behaviors for stereotypic behaviors when opportunity for active responding did or did not match level of motoric responding in a free-operant baseline. Students did substitute behaviors, with stereotypic behaviors occurring 1.5-14 times as much in the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Assessing a Least Restrictive Educational Environment Transfer through Social Comparison.
Repp, Alan C.; And Others – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1986
A study of 19 trainable retarded students (6-18 years old) showed (1) level of appropriate responding increased with transfer to the community; (2) level of inappropriate behavior remained the same after transter; and (3) levels of appropriate and inappropriate responding of the transferred group were similar to those of a community group.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)