Token reinforcement and remedial feedback were made contingent upon writing correct sentences containing prenominal adjectives only, then adverbs only, then prenominal adjectives plus adverbs. When the instructional package was implemented, all Ss demonstrated significant increases in response rate, accuracy, and percentage of correct sentences,…

Four learning disabled children (6-9 years old) were taught four positive social-emotional behaviors--smiling, sharing, positive physical contacting, and verbal complimenting--using instructions, modelling, and praise. (Author)

An operant-based corrective reading program was established to study effectiveness of peer tutoring for 69 reading deficient second- to fourth-grade students who were matched on measures of initial reading ability and level of reading retardation and randomly assigned to three groups (peer tutoring only, peer tutoring with home based…