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Cunningham, Charles E.; And Others – Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 1983
Reviews individual and group studies describing the application of behavior therapy techniques to the management of 41 electively mute children. Updates previous reviews of treatment techniques, examines criteria influencing application of specific techniques to individual children, and evaluates evidence as to relative effectiveness of different…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Children, Counseling Techniques
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Lloyd, Margaret E.; Hilliard, Ann M. – Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 1989
Observed the accuracy of self-recording of on-task behavior by five special education students. Found high accuracy when reinforcers were used, but accuracy declined sharply in the self-reinforcement condition after repeated exposure. (FMW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Contingency Management, Extinction (Psychology)
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Keogh, Deborah; And Others – Child and Family Behavior Therapy, 1983
A study showed that mentally retarded children can be taught rather easily to verbalize instructions, suggesting that past difficulty in such training was due more to inadequate procedures than to inherent difficulties related to children's ability to self-instruct. Correspondence between the children's verbal and nonverbal behavior was also…
Descriptors: Attention, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Children