Journal article
Evaluation and treatment of covert stereotypy
Behavioral interventions, Vol.17(1), pp.43-49
01/2002
DOI: 10.1002/bin.105
Abstract
The treatment of behavior maintained by automatic reinforcement (e.g. stereotypy) can present a unique challenge if practitioners cannot control delivery of the maintaining reinforcer. Further, some individuals might engage in stereotypy only when care providers are absent. In the current evaluation, an adolescent boy's hand flapping was demonstrated to occur in the absence of social contingencies and care providers. To reduce the behavior, two treatment strategies were assessed. In the first approach, verbal reminders to refrain from hand flapping were delivered on time‐based schedules. In the second approach (differential reinforcement of other behavior, DRO), we provided access to a preferred item contingent on prespecified time lengths with no hand flapping when the participant was alone in a room. Results of the investigation indicated that the verbal reminders were unsuccessful, whereas the DRO program resulted in near‐zero levels of stereotypy. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Evaluation and treatment of covert stereotypy
- Creators
- Joel E RingdahlMarc S AndelmanKana KitsukawaLisa C WinbornAnjali BarrettoDavid P Wacker
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Behavioral interventions, Vol.17(1), pp.43-49
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Chichester, UK
- DOI
- 10.1002/bin.105
- ISSN
- 1072-0847
- eISSN
- 1099-078X
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2002
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
- Record Identifier
- 9983993482102771
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