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- Title
Decreasing Aggressive and Non-compliant Behaviors of Students with Autism Through the Use of an "Elapsation of Time" Stimulus.
- Authors
Didomenico, Justin A.
- Abstract
The researcher suggests that a possible reason for students with autism engaging in escape-maintained behaviors in inclusion settings is that there is no clear stimulus signaling the length of time until reinforcement. The researcher investigated whether a correlation exists between the use of a time stimulus and a decrease in aggressive and non-compliant behaviors of two students with autism. The time stimulus created by the experimenter was designed to show time elapsing over minutes through the use of two, colored, semi-circular disks. The discs were able to spin freely within a larger white disc that was labeled from 1 to 30 minutes. A green disc was set to a particular time and the students were taught that when the red disc covered the green, they were given access to the reinforcer. The results indicate that the time stimulus was associated with a reduction in aggressive and non-compliant behaviors. Possible explanations for the effectiveness of this device as well as improvements for future research are discussed.
- Subjects
AGGRESSION (Psychology); STUDENTS; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; AUTISM in children; BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Behavior Analyst Today, 2003, Vol 4, Issue 2, p134
- ISSN
1539-4352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1037/h0100111