Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are neuropsychological disorders that can be challenging to students both academically and social-emotionally, especially when they occur together. Students with ASD can have co-occurring OCD, which can complicate social-emotional and academic outcomes. Teachers are in an ideal…

Functional communication training (FCT) is a strategy to address problem behavior for students with various disabilities that is supported by a broad evidence base. Despite this support, multiple factors continue to dissuade educators from utilizing FCT in their classrooms. This article outlines the process of developing and implementing FCT plans…

The survey identifies reinforcement preferences by means of an indirect categorical technique, which views reinforcement as being educationally, environmentally, and developmentally characteristic of severely and profoundly retarded individuals. (Author/DLS)

The manual describes approaches the teacher or therapist can use to motivate handicapped students. Chapter 1 considers motivation in terms of the consequences of an action, contingency awareness, and types of motivating conditions. A second chapter offers guidelines for identifying potential reinforcers and discusses examples of motivating…

The collection of readings for children was developed as part of the Portage Project which serves approximately 150 rural preschool handicapped and nonhandicapped children by providing them with a home teacher who instructs parents on how to teach their children. Readings cover the following topics: definitions of terms to know; the home teaching…