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- Title
The use of response cost to treat spitting by a child with autism.
- Authors
Bartlett, Sara M.; Rapp, John T.; Krueger, Tyler K.; Henrickson, Marissa L.
- Abstract
We evaluated the extent to which noncontingent access to one or multiple items and the contingent removal of a specific item decreased a young boy's spitting. Results indicated that the boy's spitting did not decrease when he was given noncontingent access to multiple, alternative stimuli or to a toy radio. By contrast, when the toy radio was removed contingent on spitting, the rate of the boy's spitting decreased to zero or near-zero levels. Similar results were produced in the boy's special education classroom. Follow-up sessions conducted 2 and 4 months later indicated that the reduction in the boy's spitting persisted across time. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
AUTISM; TREATMENT of behavior disorders in children; BEHAVIOR modification; HEALTH outcome assessment; REINFORCEMENT (Psychology); TREATMENT effectiveness; INTER-observer reliability; CHILDREN
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2011, Vol 26, Issue 1, p76
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.322