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Krumrine, Herbert W.; Thomas, Margaret – Pointer, 1976
Described is a program in which adolescent institutionalized handicapped girls are rewarded with money for improved academic performance, behavior, and participation. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Handicapped Children
Download full textSCHWITZGEBEL, ROBERT – 1967
AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM OF SMALL TRANSCEIVER UNITS, PACKAGED IN A BELT WORN BY STUDENTS IN CLASS, WAS DESIGNED TO TRANSMIT LIGHT SIGNALS AND VIBRA-TACTILE CODED MESSAGES BETWEEN STUDENTS AND A COUNSELOR AT A CLINIC SCHOOL. FOUR MALE ADOLESCENTS SELECTED FOR LOW MOTIVATION, AGGRESSIVE CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR, AND HIGH PEER-GROUP RATING REPORTED THEIR TIME…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Antisocial Behavior, Attention Span
Peer reviewedAnd Others; Repp, Alan C. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedMunford, Paul R.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
This case study demonstrates the value of conceptualizing functional somatic disorders as operants. The subject, an adolescent girl, diagnosed as having a "hysterical neurosis," manifested the symptoms of incessant coughing and mutism. The cough and mutism were treated by extinction and shaping, respectively. Positive results were obtained.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Conditioning
Peer reviewedMeyer, Margrit; And Others – Child Welfare, 1973
Describes new incentive program which has eased adult-child tension in a home for disturbed adolescents. (ST)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Drug Abuse, Incentives
Peer reviewedSachs, David A.; Mayhall, Bill – Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Cerebral Palsy, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedAusman, James O.; Gaddy, Michael R. – Mental Retardation, 1974
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Blindness, Echolalia
Pooley, Richard – 1971
University graduate students worked as counselors with delinquent prone youths to develop and define means of identifying and re-orienting delinquent prone youths in a high school community setting. Diagnostic and evaluative instruments and techniques used included the computer analyzed Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Case Studies, Delinquency
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
Peer reviewedAusman, James; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1974
Examined was the effect of operant-conditioning on the pica behavior (eating inedible substances) of a 14-year-old severely retarded institutionalized boy. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Case Studies, Eating Habits
Peer reviewedSmeets, Paul M.; Striefel, Sebastian – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1975
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Deafness, Exceptional Child Research
Tymchuk, Alexander J. – 1970
Twenty mildly and moderately retarded boys (age 12 to 18 years) participated in a behavior modification program in which adaptive behavior was rewarded through tokens or privileges, while maladaptive behavior was controlled through the use of fines and removal from the situation. The preliminary results (based on four months of operation) showed…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Exceptional Child Research, Mild Mental Retardation
Miller, Barbara S.; Miller, William H. – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1976
A 13-year-old congenitally blind black girl was involved in a study designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of a longitudinal behavior modification approach in extinguishing "blindisms" (persistent autistic-like behaviors) in a variety of settings. (SB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Blindness
Mithaug, Dennis E. – AAESPH Review, 1978
Four case studies demonstrate the management of inappropriate behavior of severely handicapped clients (14-21 years old) in a prevocational training program. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Case Studies, Contingency Management
Trybus, Raymond J.; Lacks, Patricia B. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1972
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Community Programs
