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Direct linkFisher, Wayne W.; Greer, Brian D.; Mitteer, Daniel R.; Fuhrman, Ashley M.; Romani, Patrick W.; Zangrillo, Amanda N. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2018
Recent research findings (DeRosa, Fisher, & Steege, 2015) suggest that minimizing exposure to the establishing operation (EO) for destructive behavior when differential reinforcement interventions like functional communication training (FCT) are introduced may produce more immediate reductions in destructive behavior and prevent or mitigate…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Hypothesis Testing
Rappaport, Nancy; Minahan, Jessica – Educational Leadership, 2012
When, despite their best efforts, teachers feel defeated by a disruptive student, it seems they're fighting a losing battle. These students often have trouble regulating their emotions, become inflexible and have outbursts, and leave teachers feeling exhausted and incompetent. Through their collaboration, the authors have developed an approach…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Classroom Environment, Student Behavior, Classroom Techniques
Scahill, Lawrence; McDougle, Christopher J.; Aman, Michael G.; Johnson, Cynthia; Handen, Benjamin; Bearss, Karen; Dziura, James; Butter, Eric; Swiezy, Naomi G.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Stigler, Kimberly A.; Sukhodolsky, Denis D.; Lecavalier, Luc; Pozdol, Stacie L.; Nikolov, Roumen; Hollway, Jill A.; Korzekwa, Patricia; Gavaletz, Allison; Kohn, Arlene E.; Koenig, Kathleen; Grinnon, Stacie; Mulick, James A.; Yu, Sunkyung; Vitiello, Benedetto – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDDs) have social interaction deficits, delayed communication, and repetitive behaviors as well as impairments in adaptive functioning. Many children actually show a decline in adaptive skills compared with age mates over time. Method: This 24-week, three-site, controlled clinical trial…
Descriptors: Socialization, Autism, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
Aaron-Stanton, Desiree – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This ethnographic study of language shows the importance of educators' appropriate use of linguistic, nonlinguistic, and paralinguistic communication techniques when working with elementary students within two classrooms who have behavioral and emotional disorders. This study focused on communication techniques used by teachers and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Elementary School Teachers, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Elementary School Students
Abdulalim, Latif – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study examined programming practices that have identified in the research as critical for school success for students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Secondary purposes of the study were to identify the extent to which these practices were used and to examine student social/emotional and academic outcome data in a public day…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Public Schools, Day Schools
Peer reviewedJohnston, Susan S.; Reichle, Joe – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1993
This article discusses assessment strategies for accurately pinpointing the social and communicative functions of challenging behavior and presents an array of proactive interventions to decrease escape-motivated challenging behavior and to decrease access-motivated challenging behavior. Factors influencing the selection of one intervention…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Communication Problems
Peer reviewedBlake, Concepcion; Wang, Weiqi; Cartledge, Gwendolyn; Gardner, Ralph – Behavioral Disorders, 2000
In two studies, 18 middle school boys with serious emotional disturbances (SED) were taught to use a social skills curriculum to teach more positive peer interactions to peers with SED. Results indicate the desired effects of the peer-based social skills instruction, with some evidence of behavior maintenance and transfer. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedGumpel, Thomas P.; David, Shlomit – Behavioral Disorders, 2000
An alternative model of social skills instruction that does not assume social skill deficits, but rather deficits in self-regulatory behavior, was used with three boys with severe behavior disorders. Self monitoring procedures were used to cue social skills, were effective in altering participant's social behaviors, and created maintained positive…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Cues, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedDucharme, Joseph M.; Harris, Kimberly; Milligan, Karen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2003
A study involving four children (ages 4-7) with developmental disabilities and severe opposition behaviors found that use of reinforcement for compliance in isolation was ineffective in bringing about significant improvement in child compliance. The addition of a graduated request hierarchy appeared to be associated with substantial changes in…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Child Rearing
Peer reviewedDadds, Mark R.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1987
Assessed the role of marital discord in the outcome of a program training parents in behavioral techniques (behavioral parent training), and the effects of an adjunctive treatment of partner support training (PST) on outcome. Families with an oppositional or conduct disordered child underwent child management training alone or with PST. Measured…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Children, Family Environment
Peer reviewedNeary, Erin M.; Eyberg, Sheila M. – Infants and Young Children, 2002
This article discusses the prevalence and stability of disruptive behavior in preschool-age children and the use of parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) to treat such children and their parents. PCIT focuses on changing ineffective parent-child interaction patterns by first focusing on child-directed interaction and then on parent-directed…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Child Rearing, Discipline
Download full textIndiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. Div. of Special Education. – 1987
The document is intended to serve as resource information for school secretaries who interact with emotionally handicapped (EH) students. An initial section describes typical characteristics of EH students and lists examples of such negative behaviors as noncompliance, physical and verbal aggression, attention-seeking, and inadequate social…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. Div. of Special Education. – 1987
Five staff development modules are presented, designed for teachers who work with emotionally handicapped students. Intended to be taught by master teachers, each module contains a rationale statement, statement of purpose, scope of instruction, discussion of prerequisites, pretest and posttest, and related handouts and learner activities.…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification, Crisis Intervention, Educational Diagnosis
