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Peer reviewedKazdin, Alan E. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedYen, Sherman – Mental Retardation, 1974
The developmental pattern of present behavior modification programs for the adult mentally retarded is evaluated. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Community Programs, Exceptional Child Education
Shames, George H.; and others – J Speech Hearing Disor, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Experimental Programs, Operant Conditioning
Benassi, Victor A.; Benassi, Barbara J. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedMoore, James W.; Tingstrom, Daniel H.; Doggett, R. Anthony; Carlyon, William D. – Child & Family Behavior Therapy, 2001
Restructuring an existing token economy (TE) in a psychiatric facility for children led to increased point-earning and decreased daily trips to seclusion. Restructuring occurred through operationalization of target behaviors and reduction of time between receipt of reinforcers and opportunity to exchange tokens. Results suggest changes in basic…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Children, Operant Conditioning, Program Effectiveness
Peer reviewedDrudge, Mary K. Mitchell; Philips, Betty Jane – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1976
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Learning Processes, Operant Conditioning, Program Evaluation
Roos, Philip; Oliver, Margret – Amer J Ment Deficiency, 1969
Descriptors: Attendants, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedBrierton, Gary; and others – Mental Retardation, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Brust, D.; And Others – 1974
The Cottage A Ward Behavior Modification Project at the Orient State Institute was designed to implement behavior modification techniques with 67 retarded child residents. Major project objectives included developing self-help skills (such as toilet training); eliminating undesirable behaviors (such as head banging); teaching behavior modification…
Descriptors: Administration, Behavior Change, Children, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedCarlson, John G.; Hill, Kenneth D. – Personnel Psychology, 1982
Studied the effect of gaming as an approach to reducing employee absenteeism. A longitudinal study in a small manufacturing plant, showed significant improvement in employee attitude and cooperation due to the opportunity for communication. Operant conditioning also resulted in somewhat lower absenteeism and tardiness. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Employee Attitudes, Employees
Horner, Robert H., Ed.; Bellamy, G. Thomas, Ed. – 1980
Sixteen papers concerned with vocational habilitation of the severely and profoundly retarded are organized into three parts: issues in habilitation, stimulus control of vocational behavior, and instrumentation for program evaluation. Papers have the following titles and authors: "Structured Employment: Productivity and Productive Capacity" (R.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Evaluation Methods, Leisure Time, Life Style
Download full textHuman Resources Research Organization, Dothan, AL. Div. 6. – 1974
A 3-year Title III project provided inservice training to 183 elementary teachers in methods of improving behavior, academic performance, and affective reactions of children with socio-emotional conflicts treatable in the regular classroom. The program included summer workshops and released-time training during the school year in indepth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Elementary Education
Curricula Improvement Center, Punta Gorda, FL. – 1972
Intended to reduce the occurrence of inattending behaviors in 400 educable mentally handicapped students and to increase and maintain attending behaviors, project EDUCATE is described as an inservice program to teach behavior modification techniques to 16 special education teachers. EDUCOURSE I is said to have resulted from a review of research,…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Peer reviewedWehman, Paul; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1977
A selective review of behavior modification programs, which emphasized procedures for programing transfer of training and response maintenance in handicapped students, was undertaken. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Elementary Secondary Education
Harris, Alice – 1975
A program was designed to train college students in the use of behavior modification procedures with problem children in the classroom. Through application of social learning theory principles and operant conditioning, program trainees learned to reduce the innapropriate behavior of problem children in class, to prevent small difficulties from…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education
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