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Krumrine, Herbert W.; Thomas, Margaret – Pointer, 1976
Described is a program in which adolescent institutionalized handicapped girls are rewarded with money for improved academic performance, behavior, and participation. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Handicapped Children
Elardo, Richard – Phi Delta Kappan, 1978
Describes the implementation of a token economy as a method of controlling student behavior in an elementary school. Emphasizes student participation and discusses board issues such as teacher resistance to the program and the question of evaluation. (IRT)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Corporal Punishment, Discipline, Elementary Education
Mendelsohn, Mark B. – AAESPH Review, 1978
The article describes a program in which paraprofessionals taught behavior modification contingency management techniques to parents of developmentally disabled children who lived beyond the range of the community residential facility. (DLS)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Developmental Disabilities, Operant Conditioning
O'Harra, Edwin A. – Teaching Except Children, 1970
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning
Bettison, S.; Garlington, W. – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1975
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Inservice Education, Mental Retardation
Download full textCarter, Ronald D.; Poeschel, Susan M. – 1972
Described is a program to provide educational services for severely emotionally disturbed (autistic or childhood schizophrenic) children based on behavior modification principles. Both formal and informal tests of performance are given in the areas of preacademic and readiness tasks. Each child is individually tutored in language, pre-reading,…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education
Peer reviewedCaccamo, James M. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Described is a Kansas City (Missouri) clinic's program of providing mentally retarded clients with behavior modification services. (DB)
Descriptors: Accountability, Behavior Change, Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation
Wood, Constance D.; And Others – 1979
Three papers discuss aspects of The Ima Hogg Therapeutic School for emotionally disturbed children. The first paper addresses the school's behavior development and management system, which rewards self management with freedom in physical activity and uses individualized target behaviors designed to increase the child's acceptable social…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Educational Programs, Emotional Disturbances
Berkman, Gloria – 1976
Described is the parent education component of a St. Louis, Missouri, program for the severely handicapped (5-21 years old) which focused on instruction in behavior modification skills. Noted are the organization of the first program of 10 weekly sessions, a continuation program for parents who completed the first program, the "hard to reach"…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Operant Conditioning
Montgomery, Jacqueline; McBurney, Raymond D. – 1970
Described is an Operant Conditioning-Token Economy Program, teaching patients to be responsible for their own behavior, to make choices, and to be motivated to change. The program was instigated with mentally ill patients in a state hospital and was later used with institutionalized mentally handicapped groups. After two years, only four of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Retardation
Ball, Thomas S., Ed. – 1969
Seven articles treat the establishment of operant conditioning programs for the mentally retarded at Pacific State Hospital in California. Emphasis is on the administrative rather than the demonstration of research aspects of operant conditioning programs. Following an introduction and overview, the medical director's point of view on operant…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Policy, Behavior Change, Institutions
Benassi, Victor A.; Benassi, Barbara J. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1973
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Operant Conditioning
Peer reviewedRoberts, Carl L.; Perry, Robert M. – Mental Retardation, 1970
A description of a program of behavior modification using principles of operant conditioning on residents at a mental retardation institution. (RD)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Exceptional Child Education, Institutionalized Persons
Peer reviewedMarshall, Ann E.; Heward, William L. – Behavioral Disorders, 1979
Eight institutionalized male juvenile delinquents participated in a 13 session course on principles and techniques of self-management. The course was conducted in the Visual Response System, a specially designed classroom in which each student responds on an overhead projector built into his desk. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Delinquency, Exceptional Child Research, Institutionalized Persons
Harris, Ben; Lightner, Jean – 1978
Most histories of psychology and psychiatry attribute the first group psychotherapy to Joseph Pratt's 1905 class for tuberculosis patients. Pratt's actual treatment procedures are examined. They are shown to have consisted primarily of operant and social-learning techniques, aimed at increasing patient compliance with a demanding therapeutic…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Group Therapy, Literature Reviews
