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A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Brief versus Traditional Functional Analyses.
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Tincani, Matthew J.; Castrogiavanni, Anthony; Axelrod, Saul – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1999
A study compared a brief and an extended functional analyses of three adults with serious developmental disabilities and aggressive or self-injurious behavior. Both analyses revealed the same controlling variables, but the brief functional analyses took less than 20% the time in analog conditions as the extended analyses. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Adults, Aggression, Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
Within-Session Patterns of Self-Injury as Indicators of Behavioral Function.
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Vollmer, Timothy R.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1993
This study evaluated a method for assessing the behavioral function of severe self-injury in four adults with severe/profound mental retardation. Initial assessment included analyzing within-session trends and fluctuations in rates of self-injury by plotting the frequency within each minute of the session. (DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Evaluation Methods