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Peer reviewedMcComas, Jennifer J.; Wacker, David P.; Cooper, Linda J. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1998
A study examined the effects of a high-probability procedure on the compliance with medical procedures of a toddler with developmental delays and self-injurious behavior. Compliance to low-probability requests occurred more frequently following compliance to high-probability requests, suggesting that this procedure may be useful across different…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Compliance (Psychology), Conditioning, Medical Services
Download full textMacCubrey, Mary Katharine – 1968
Operant conditioning techniques were used to modify verbal behavior in 18 institutionalized, trainable mentally handicapped mongoloids with chronological ages from 4-6 to 7-10 and mental ages from 2.0 to 2.10. Two instruments were constructed to evaluate language: a language test and a speech rating scale. Project leaders had no prior knowledge of…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Case Records, Down Syndrome
Peer reviewedKnapczyk, Dennis R.; Yoppi, Judith O. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Children, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedRepp, Alan C.; Deitz, Samuel M. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1974
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Change, Children, Exceptional Child Research
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
Peer reviewedAusman, James O.; Gaddy, Michael R. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Blindness, Echolalia
Sheron, Arvilla A. – Educ Training Ment Retarded, 1969
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Education, Mental Retardation, Operant Conditioning
Buddenhagen, Ronald G. – 1971
Behavior modification as an attack upon the problem of mutism in mongoloid children establishes the basis of the text. Case histories of four children in a state institution present the specific strategy of speech therapy using verbal conditioning. Imitation and attending behavior, verbal chaining, phonetic theory, social reinforcement,…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Down Syndrome, Exceptional Child Education, Institutionalized Persons
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
Clinton, LeRoy – 1970
This study investigated the effects of between-trials variability on the alternation discrimination of retardates. Brightness and size were variable between trials and irrelevant. Initial response outcome and mental age were also independent variables. Neither between-trials variability nor mental age produced a significant main effect, while the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
Blindert, H. Dieter – 1973
Twenty children diagnosed as mentally retarded (MR) were enrolled in a special training program designed to increase Ss' school-appropriate behaviors by means of the sequential and consequential arrangement of teaching objectives and teaching procedures. A hierarchy of achievement levels was established with a sequential and consequential…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Children, Exceptional Child Research
Ackerman, Marc J. – 1972
Following 4 weeks of unsuccessful conventional therapy, five trainable mentally retarded males (CA 7-12 years) were placed in a behavior modification group-therapy-readiness program (BMP). Immediate gratification, short range delayed gratification, and long range delayed gratification were used. Teachers were encouraged to continue the BMP in…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Group Therapy, Mental Retardation
Waldron, Faith – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1975
Descriptors: Attention Span, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedMatson, J. L.; And Others – Journal of Mental Deficiency Research, 1978
Two new variations of overcorrection (a behavior modification technique) in the treatment of the self-injurious behaviors (cigarette-butt-eating and hair pulling) of a 57-year-old profoundly mentally handicapped woman are discussed. (BD)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Mental Retardation
