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Download full textSundberg, Mark L.; And Others – 1976
A study involving 7 multiply handicapped students (6-13 years old) was conducted to shape appropriate classroom social behaviors and to maintain them with little social approval, to examine what effects reprimands had on student behavior, and to see if combination of reprimands and praise could result in good classroom behavior when reprimands…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Ross, Nola – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1977
Seven multiply handicapped adolescents were selected for a group activity program to improve manipulation, increase task attention, develop group cohesion, and modify inappropriate behavior using some behavior modification techniques. (SBH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Span, Behavior Change, Contingency Management
Peer reviewedHaskett, Josh; Hollar, W. David – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1978
In two experiments, three of four profoundly retarded and physically handicapped children (9-17 years old) with MAs below seven months demonstrated instrumental learning of a manipulatory response that produced either illumination or music. (Author)
Descriptors: Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research, Multiple Disabilities, Physical Disabilities
Peer reviewedMurphy, Robert; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1979
Through the use of a multielement design, a procedure incorporating response-contingent music was demonstrated to be effective in increasing upright head positioning for six profoundly retarded, multihandicapped students (14-19 years old). (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research
Wolery, Mark R. – AAESPH Review, 1978
For availability, see EC 104 061. Sensory stimulation, similar to that received during self stimulation, was administered to one autistic and one multiply handicapped child (6 and 4 years old) contingent upon correct response to a manipulative task. (CL)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedMurphy, Robert J.; Doughty, Neil R. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1977
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Flack, Beth; And Others – 1980
The paper describes a special education staff's problems with teaching a severely handicapped institutionalized population and reports on observations of seven multiply handicapped (blind-mentally retarded) students. The students' feeding skills performance in the institution and the school was compared in such terms as diet, utensil use, special…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Case Studies, Contingency Management, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedCarroll, Scott W.; And Others – Mental Retardation, 1978
Satiation, over-correction and differential reinforcement of other behavior resulted in the elimination of chronic clothes ripping by six institutionalized mentally retarded emotionally disturbed adolescents. (CL)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Contingency Management
And Others; Jones, Judith – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1977
Presented is the case study of a multiply handicapped institutionalized boy (3.8 years old) with presenting problems of self-injury, refusing food, and inability to walk. (IM)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Contingency Management, Downs Syndrome
