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- Title
Developing a treatment for hand‐clapping maintained by automatic reinforcement using sensory analysis, noncontingent reinforcement, and thinning.
- Authors
Slocum, Sarah K.; Yatros, Nicolette; Scheithauer, Mindy
- Abstract
Two subjects diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and related disabilities who engaged in hand‐clapping maintained by automatic reinforcement participated in this study. We conducted a sensory analysis to evaluate matched stimuli that functioned as an abolishing operation or extinction for different sources of sensory reinforcement. Finally, we implemented noncontingent reinforcement (NCR) using the stimuli found to compete in the assessment to reduce the target behavior, and we thinned item availability. Results showed a decrease in hand‐clapping, and hand‐clapping remained low when we thinned the schedule of reinforcement. This research further elucidates how NCR can treat problem behavior maintained by automatic reinforcement.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of autism; SENSES; PSYCHOLOGY of movement; REINFORCEMENT (Psychology); BEHAVIOR disorders
- Publication
Behavioral Interventions, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 1, p228
- ISSN
1072-0847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/bin.1749