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Moon, Kwangsu; Oah, Shezeen – Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, 2013
This study used an ABCB within-subjects design to examine the relative effects of feedback and prompts on safe sitting posture. Participants were three office workers. The dependent variables were the percentages of time the participants spent in four safe individual body positions and in the safe overall sitting posture. After baseline (A),…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Prompting, Human Posture, Program Effectiveness
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Okada, Shingo; Ohtake, Yoshihisa; Yanagihara, Masafumi – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2010
This pilot study investigated the impact of manipulating the value of perspective sentences on improving the manners of a student with autism spectrum disorders. Three types of perspective sentences (sentences held by unknown persons, those held by familiar persons, and those held by the most preferred person) were alternately added to a Social…
Descriptors: Sentences, Autism, Interpersonal Competence, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Bailey, Rita L.; Angell, Maureen E. – Physical Disabilities: Education and Related Services, 2004
This article identifies critical components of effective school-based feeding improvement programs for students with feeding problems. A distinction is made between typical school-based feeding management and feeding improvement programs, where feeding, independent functioning, and mealtime behaviors are the focus of therapeutic strategies.…
Descriptors: Improvement Programs, School Activities, Eating Disorders, Program Effectiveness
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Jones, Martyn C.; Walley, Robert M.; Leech, Amanda; Paterson, Marion; Common, Stephanie; Metcalf, Charlotte – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
People with profound intellectual disabilities rarely experience a physically active lifestyle, and their long-term physical inactivity likely contributes to poor health. The authors developed and implemented a pilot exercise program for persons with a profound intellectual disability and conducted a study to evaluate the effort. The development…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Exercise, Severe Mental Retardation, Seizures