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Delfs, Caitlin H.; Campbell, Jonathan M. – Behavior Analyst Today, 2010
Methods and outcomes from functional behavioral assessment have been researched widely over the past twenty-five years. However, several important research questions have yet to be examined sufficiently. This quantitative review of developmental disability research aims to make comparisons of different functional behavioral assessment…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Literature Reviews, Research Methodology
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Cipani, Ennio; Thomas, Melvin; Martin, Daniel – Behavior Analyst Today, 2007
This paper will examine possible extinction properties of behavior-specific manual restraint. It will analyze the possibility of extinction being produced via restraint with respect to the target behavior's possible environmental functions. The theoretical analysis will involve the analysis of behavioral properties of restraint during two temporal…
Descriptors: Self Control, Behavior Modification, Self Destructive Behavior, Outcomes of Treatment
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Doughty, Adam H.; Oken, Gabriella – Behavior Analyst Today, 2008
Resurgence refers to the recovery of previously extinguished responding when a recently reinforced response is extinguished. Although the topic of resurgence has received limited experimental attention, there recently have been an increased number of investigations involving the topic. This increased experimental attention also has been…
Descriptors: Investigations, Behavior Modification, Communication Disorders, Reinforcement
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Chen, Chiu-Wen; Ma, Hsen-Hsing – Behavior Analyst Today, 2007
The present study uses the PEM approach to synthesize the effectiveness of treatment on disruptive behaviors and simultaneously tests whether the higher validity of the PEM approach than that of the PND approach is repeatable. A hand search of the "Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis" was conducted, and reference lists from reviewed articles were…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Program Effectiveness, Effect Size, Token Economy
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Luiselli, James K.; Ricciardi, Joseph N.; Zubow, Marjorie; Laster, Kimberly – Behavior Analyst Today, 2004
We evaluated contingent and noncontingent practice of an alternative behavior (appropriate play) as intervention for stereotypy that occurred with two play objects in a 5-year old boy with autism. Contingent practice was implemented as a consequence for stereotypy, and the rate of noncontingent practice was matched (yoked) to that schedule. On…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Repetition, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Weiss, Mary Jane; Delmolino, Lara – Behavior Analyst Today, 2006
The present study suggests that initial learning rates of young children with autism receiving early, intensive, home-based behavioral intervention are moderately correlated with outcome variables after four years of treatment. 20 children with autism who had Childhood Autism Rating Scale scores between 37.5 and 58 and Vineland Adaptive Behavior…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Modification