In this reflective interview with Terry Friedrichs--a hands-on academic-learning specialist and researcher with gifted students with Asperger Syndrome--he defines these pupils, describes their "straightforward" and confusing traits, and recounts his initial and later instructional experiences with them over several decades. The piece…

Previous research suggests that motivating operation (MO) manipulations may assist in assessing discriminated manding (Gutierrez et al., 2007). The current study partially replicated and extended previous research by varying access to concurrently available reinforcers with different preference values (i.e., MO manipulations). Manding did not…

Previous research suggests that language-training procedures for children with autism might be enhanced following an assessment of conditions that evoke emerging verbal behavior. The present investigation examined a methodology to teach recognizable mands based on environmental variables known to evoke participants' idiosyncratic communicative…

The relationship between a newborn score of minor physical anomalies and behavior at ages one and two was examined in 63 high anomaly and 78 low anomaly infants. (Author/SBH)

The study investigated achievement motivation of children with learning and behavior problems and examined effects of various types of verbal instruction on performance tasks and the resulting relationships of these verbal instructions to achievement motivation. The subjects were 48 third and fourth grade children diagnosed as having learning…

The relationships between motor impairment and five types of behavior disturbance were examined in 713 students between the ages of 6 and 14 years, using the Test of Motor Impairment and the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides. (DL S)

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Students rated as aggressive-disruptive by teachers were found to achieve at significantly lower levels after 5 years than socially approved students. (KW)

Studied was the comparative effectiveness of dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate for the treatment of severe behavior disorders among 18 children (from 5 to 10 1/2 years of age) hospitalized for neuropsychiatric conditions. (Author)

D. Campbell and D. Fiske's multitrait-multimethod matrix was applied to data from two independent social learning measures designed to evaluate procedures used to aid 47 aggressive children (5-15 years old). (Author/CL)

Aversive tickling was successfully used with two blind, retarded, adolescent girls as a punishment procedure to reduce frequency of self-destructive head banging in one case and a variety of attention-getting behaviors in the other. (Author/KW)

Compared to 44 nontrained child aides, 19 trained aides had significantly higher postprogram scale scores on opinions and beliefs about acting out children, changes in feeling about working with them, and actual observed changes in their playroom behaviors. (Author)

Both parents and teachers rated the speech and language disordered children as having more severe and more frequent behavioral abnormalities, particularly hyperactive behaviors and developmental problems. (Author)

The study examined the validity of teachers' identification of problem children. The results indicated that conduct problem children differed from normal children on behavioral, sociometric, and academic measures. Conduct problem and withdrawal problem children did not differ on any of the dependent measures.