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Greene, Robert J.; Hoats, David L. – Behavior Therapy, 1971
Aversive tickling was successfully used with two blind, retarded, adolescent girls as a punishment procedure to reduce frequency of self-destructive head banging in one case and a variety of attention-getting behaviors in the other. (Author/KW)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Exceptional Child Research, Multiple Disabilities
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Rapoff, M. A.; And Others – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1980
Breaking a capsule of aromatic ammonia under the 5 year old retarded boy's nose contingent upon his self poking was found to be the most effective form of treatment. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Deaf Blind, Exceptional Child Research
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Billingsley, Felix F.; Smelser, Sandra J. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Emotional Disturbances
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Marholin, D., II; And Others – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1980
Two case studies are presented illustrating how the treatment program eliminated rumination with effects maintained 1 to 9 months following treatment, and how substantial weight gain was also demonstrated with one S who had previously lost weight. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Body Weight, Case Studies
Gardner, William I. – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Electrical Stimuli, Exceptional Child Research
Mithaug, Dennis E. – AAESPH Review, 1979
The study compared the relative effectiveness of different procedures (two potentially positive and two potentially negative reinforcing procedures) for decreasing response durations in three severely retarded 14- to 20-year-old women who were severely disruptive and noncompliant. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research
Gaylord-Ross, Robert J.; And Others – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1980
Findings showed an interaction between mands (instructional directions) and response type. Only when a mand was given during performance of the sorting task did the frequency of SIB increase. The contingent application of verbal praise had a minor, though systematic, effect in reducing the frequency of SIB. (PHR)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Contingency Management
Joachim, Ron; McPherson, Lynne – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children
Hill, John P., Ed. – 1967
Ten schizophrenic and autistic children who exhibited self destructive, tantrum, echolalic, and self stimulatory behaviors were treated by reinforcement therapy. Reinforcement withdrawal, in the form of interpersonal isolation contingent upon self-destruction, and electrical shocks served to extinguish these behaviors in some children.…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances
L'ABATE, LUCIANO; WHITAKER, DANIEL L. – 1967
PAPERS OR STUDIES CONCERNED WITH THE APPLICATION OF BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION PRINCIPLES TO CHILDREN AND RETARDATES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. AUTHORS ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY. A SHORT PARAGRAPH DESCRIBES THE GENERAL NATURE OF EACH STUDY CITED, AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES ARE GIVEN. THERE ARE 130 ENTRIES IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY. (MS)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Hamblin, Robert L.; Buckholdt, David – 1967
Recognizing that punishment for aggression often is noneffective or inadvertently reinforces the aggressive act, the authors discuss an alternative approach and provide an explanation of the exchange theory of aggression. Three classroom experiments, operated with children chosen as the most severe behavior problems in a local school system, are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Hamblin, Robert L.; And Others – 1967
A description of the Social Exchange Laboratory's work with autistic children is presented. The laboratory's philosophy of the exchange theory of autism, seen as a set of habitual response patterns maintained and intensified by exchanges which are inadvertantly structured by others in the child's environment, is set forth with characteristics,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories