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Peer reviewedMansdorf, Irwin J. – Mental Retardation, 1977
A method of rapid token training was undertaken in which 20 moderately retarded institutionalized adults observed a model perform a specific behavior for which a token was awarded and exchanged for a back-up reinforcer. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research, Imitation
And Others; Katz, Shlomo – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1977
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Job Simplification
Douglas, John; And Others – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1989
A 14-year-old student with moderate retardation rode a stationary bicycle, while rotation of the bicycle wheel operated one of three consequence conditions (television, flashing lights, or vibrator sound). Vibrator sound was the most potent reinforcing consequence. The activity led to the development of exercise behavior with a minimum amount of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Stimuli, Contingency Management, Exercise
Peer reviewedAltman, Karl; Haavik, Sarah – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1977
Examined are the implications of independent ambulation for severely retarded children and reviewed is the literature describing behavioral interventions which facilitate walking. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Daily Living Skills, Intervention
Peer reviewedAndo, Haruhiko – Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, 1977
Five profoundly retarded males (6 to 9 years old) with clinical manifestations of autism were used to evaluate the use of operant conditioning techniques to toilet train children in an autism ward of a hospital for developmentally disturbed children. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Developmental Disabilities
