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Methylphenidate and Thioridazine: Learning, Reaction Time, Activity, and Classroom Behavior in Disturbed Children
Sprague, Robert L.; And Others – Amer J Orthopsychiat, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Drug Therapy, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Using Withdrawal of Positive Reinforcement to Alter Subtraction Performance
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Lovitt, Thomas C.; Smith, Deborah D. – Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Children, Exceptional Child Research
Effects of the Psychoactive Drug: Methylphenidate (Ritalin) on Classroom Disorders: Hyperactivity, Emotional Disturbance and Learning Disorders.
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Hirst, Irene – 1976
Reviewed were several research studies using varying dosages of methylphenidate (Ritalin) in contrast with thioridazine and amphetamine under various behavioral conditions and situations with hyperactive, emotionally disturbed, and learning disabled children. Results from the studies with hyperactive children indicated that drug treatment was…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Drug Therapy, Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation
Use of the von Restorff Effect to Condition Rehearsal in Retarded Children
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Jacobs, J. Walter; Foshee, Donald P. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Processes, Mental Retardation
Reducing the Disparity Between Model Stimulus and Imitative Response in Two Autistic Subjects
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Woods, Thomas S. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1978
Two autistic boys, ages 6 and 10 years, whose imitative responding was functionally inaccurate and whose performance generalized poorly, were trained to imitate accurately using a reinforcement-extinction strategy. (DLS)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Children, Exceptional Child Research
Facilitating Reading Behavior in the Zero Reader.
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Jackson, Merrill – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
The article reports on an intervention procedure designed to initiate reading in a ten-year-old mentally retarded girl assessed as a 'zero reader'. (PHR)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Intervention, Learning Processes
Individualized Diagnosis and Program Planning for Process Learning Deficits in Mathematics.
Kratochwill, Thomas R.; Severson, Roger A. – 1974
Discussed in a paper which was presented at the 1974 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association are diagnostic procedures for instructional planning to be used with learning disabled elementary school children handicapped in the area of mathematics. Traditional diagnostic approaches such as intelligence tests are criticized.…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Conceptual Schemes, Diagnostic Teaching, Dyscalculia