Thirteen parents of autistic children, 33 parents of other disabled children, and 73 parents of nondisabled children consistently rated differential reinforcement, time-out, and overcorrection as acceptable and shock as unacceptable, but the groups differed in ratings of acceptability of other treatments. (Author/CL)

Of 673 special education teachers responding to the survey, over 55 percent reported that behavior modification was not their major system of classroom management. Responses are broken down by categorical title of classroom for experiences with positive reinforcement, time out, negative reinforcement, contingency contracting, response cost,…