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Peer reviewedSaunders, Muriel D.; Saunders, Richard R.; Marquis, Janet G. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1998
The rates and durations of stereotypic behaviors in four adolescents with severe mental retardation were measured during two daily vocational training sessions and during contiguous periods of leisure in special education classrooms. The major differences in stereotypy between leisure and vocational training were differences in episode length.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Leisure Time
Peer reviewedJohnson, Jesse W.; Van Laarhoven, Toni; Repp, Alan C. – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2002
A study tested whether four students with mental retardation would substitute task-related behaviors for stereotypic behaviors when opportunity for active responding did or did not match level of motoric responding in a free-operant baseline. Students did substitute behaviors, with stereotypic behaviors occurring 1.5-14 times as much in the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
Peer reviewedAlbin, Richard W.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1995
This case study focused on an adult with severe disabilities and multiple problem behaviors fitting a pattern of behavioral escalation. Functional assessment indicated that use of rule statements by the teacher was related to occurrence and escalation of problem behaviors. Elimination of rule statements was an effective instructional intervention…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
