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Peer reviewedLovitt, Thomas C.; Smith, Deborah D. – Exceptional Children, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Case Studies, Children, Exceptional Child Research
Download full textYamaguchi, Kaoru – RIEEC Research Bulletin, 1977
In a study of behavior modification two Down's syndrome preschool children, the first a 5-year-old boy with autistic behavior patterns and the second a 4-year-old girl whose behavior problem was to reject other children, were examined. The first S was engaged in ball catching activities with a teacher with positive reinforcement (playing the S's…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies
Peer reviewedSisson, L. A.; Dixon, M. J. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1986
Inappropriate mealtime behaviors of a blind, mentally retarded, behaviorally disordered 10-year-old were modified via behavior therapy techniques, including audiotape of favorite stories turned off during inappropriate behavior and praise (plus access to food) for appropriate napkin and utensil use, once desired sitting posture had been…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Eating Habits
Hall, Janet; Munro, Barry C. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1986
A multiply-handicapped totally dependent young adult exhibited a steadily increasing rate of response in learning to turn her radio on and off by moving her head to activate a controlling device mounted on the headrest of her wheelchair. Positive reinforcement, prompting, and fading were employed during the intervention (Author/JW)
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Multiple Disabilities
Peer reviewedWolber, Greg; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1987
Use of a tangible reinforcer plus social reinforcement was found to be more effective in training a 33-year-old male with profound mental retardation to brush his teeth than social reinforcement alone. Determination of true positive reinforcers and training staff members to carry out such treatment programs are also discussed. (Author/VW)
Descriptors: Adults, Case Studies, Hygiene, Instructional Effectiveness
Joachim, Ron; McPherson, Lynne – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Children
DesLauriers, Austin M.; Carlson, Carole F. – 1969
Focusing on the education of the autistic child as an awakening process, the book discusses the role of meaningful human communication and reports a research program which applied a therapeutic educational technique. The development of language in children, the diagnosis of an autistic child, autistic behavior and sensory and emotional…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis
Hamblin, Robert L.; Buckholdt, David – 1967
Recognizing that punishment for aggression often is noneffective or inadvertently reinforces the aggressive act, the authors discuss an alternative approach and provide an explanation of the exchange theory of aggression. Three classroom experiments, operated with children chosen as the most severe behavior problems in a local school system, are…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
Hamblin, Robert L.; And Others – 1967
A description of the Social Exchange Laboratory's work with autistic children is presented. The laboratory's philosophy of the exchange theory of autism, seen as a set of habitual response patterns maintained and intensified by exchanges which are inadvertantly structured by others in the child's environment, is set forth with characteristics,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories
