Three children with reading difficulties increased their reading skill through a contingency program involving "happy face" charts and the opportunity to contribute to a class mural. (CL)

An exploratory investigation was conducted of the impact of interinstitutional relocation on 92 mentally retarded residents (ranging in age from 10 to 42 years). (Author/DB)

This study examined the efficacy of behavior modification in treating three hyperkinetic children (6 to 12 years old). (Author)

Examines delinquent self-esteem via review of published literature. Focused on the perceived current trend regarding insufficient considerations granted to the self-esteem paradigm in treatment prevention programming and apparent neglect of existent programming to appropriately merge significant research findings into viable treatment prevention…

The meta analysis examined the ecological validity of 241 research studies concerned with changes in targeted behaviors in the moderately or profoundly retarded or autistic. Analysis of setting (least restrictive or not), maintenance, generalization, and social validity of procedures and outcomes indicated only a slight trend toward increased…

Discusses characteristics of men arrested for spouse abuse and describes treatment methods that evaluative research suggests curtail domestic violence. A small-group educational format for court-referred treatment of abuse is described. (Author/ABB)

A survey of administrators in six Scottish secondary schools found that home-based factors are viewed as probable causes of disruptive behavior, but school-based strategies are considered likely reduction mechanisms. Individual staffs differed significantly in the extent to which they believed that the problem can be controlled by the schools.…

Reports findings of an in-depth study of how aged persons negotiated both externally and internally motivated food habit changes. Findings suggested certain past experiences, in conjunction with a negative or positive view of the future, resulted in varying levels of compliance with special diets. (Author)

A conceptual process for organizing behavior management systems for emotionally disturbed or behaviorally disordered youth is described, along with its basis in ecological theory. The three phases of developing policy, gathering information, and developing the management plan are applied to five areas: setting, services, relationships, curricula,…

The paper describes a structured model for planning and monitoring behavior change programs with handicapped learners. The Behavior Teaching Plan functions as both a process and product, emphasizes the teaching of socially acceptable behaviors, and utilizes formative evaluation through use of intervention planning sheets and flow charts.…

This article describes a comprehensive physical education program aimed at incorporating both skill and fitness development. The program is a collaboration between the University of Wyoming and the Sweetwater (Wyoming) School District #1. (MT)

A visually-impaired 17-year-old was videotaped in a work setting before and after vocational training. The videotape was shown to 35 graduate students and student teachers, whose ratings of the student's vocational competence validated behavior changes (e.g., job task accuracy) resulting from the training as being clinically important. (Author/JDD)

Results of a case study designed to test the hypothesis that acting-out students would exhibit less disruptive behavior when grouped with "well-behaved" peers than when grouped with disruptive peers indicated that placement with well-behaved peers significantly reduced disruptive behavior, suggesting that grouping is an effective and nonintrusive…

The paper discusses efforts to reduce maladaptive behaviors in retarded persons including seven desirable characteristics of behavioral change agents, programmatic factors contributing to failure (such as a reactive rather than active intervention model), appropriate use of reinforcement, reasons clients misbehave, and research based suggestions…

Treatment of mentally retarded persons with psychotropic and anticonvulsant drugs is discussed in terms of drug classification, rationale for use, attitudes toward use, and clinical research findings. The literature on neuroleptic, anticonvulsant, anxiolytic, and cerebral stimulant drugs is summarized. Controversial reports that some medications…