A girl with multiple disabilities increases object manipulation and reduces hand mouthing through a microswitch-based program

Clinical Case Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 238-249

  Lancioni, Giulio E ^a   Singh, Nirbhay N ^b   O'Reilly, Mark F ^c   Sigafoos, Jeff ^d   Didden, Robert ^e   Oliva, Doretta ^f   Cingolani, Eleonora ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f LEGA F D ORO RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hand mouthing; Indices of happiness; Microswitch cluster; Multiple disabilities; Object manipulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND MOUTHING; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MICROSWITCH BASED PROGRAM; OBJECT MANIPULATION; QUADRIPLEGIA; REINFORCEMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SPEECH DISORDER; STIMULUS; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 43149106173     PISSN: 15346501     EISSN: 15523802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534650107307478     Document Type: Article

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