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Peer reviewedGresham, Frank M. – Journal of Special Education, 1979
Two punishment procedures were compared to determine their effectiveness in reducing rates of noncompliance in a class of 11 educable mentally retarded elementary school students. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Mental Retardation, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedWyatt, William J. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1978
A profoundly retarded 28-year-old female was trained to avoid an aversive but harmless shock to the foot by withdrawing the foot upon presentation of a visual cue. (Author/SBH)
Descriptors: Adults, Auditory Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Mental Retardation
Joachim, Ron; McPherson, Lynne – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children
Download full textL'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
Larsen, Lawrence A.; Bricker, William A. – 1968
Designed for both parents and teachers, the handbook presents methods for educating the moderately and severely retarded child. Those methods include measuring progress, rewarding and punishing, ways of using rewards and punishers, ways of giving positive reinforcers and punishers, withholding reinforcers (extinction), letting the child reward…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
