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Davis, Tonya; Weston, Regan; Hodges, Abby; Gerow, Stephanie – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2022
Effective training programs for individuals with disabilities often involve the use of positive reinforcement. Social interactions have many benefits over other forms of reinforcement, but more research is needed to determine how to identify social interactions that serve as reinforcers. In the first experiment, we evaluated the use of two…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Positive Reinforcement, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship
Rehfeldt, Ruth Anne; Root, Shannon L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2005
This project examined whether a history of reinforced relational responding would result in derived requesting skills in 3 adults with disabilities. Participants were first taught to request preferred items using pictures; they were then taught conditional discriminations between pictures and their dictated names and between dictated names and…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Severe Mental Retardation, Adults, Skill Development