Incorporating descriptive assessment results into the design of a functional analysis: A case example involving a preschooler's hand mouthing

Education and Treatment of Children

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 107-123

  Tiger, Jeffrey H ^a   Hanley, Gregory P ^a   Besserte, Kimberly K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Assessment; Automatically reinforced behavior; Descriptive; Functional; Preschoolers; Response blocking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749528169     PISSN: 07488491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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