Automatic prompting and positive attention to reduce tongue protrusion and head tilting by two adults with severe to profound intellectual disabilities

Behavior Modification

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 299-309

  Lancioni, Giulio E ^a   Singh, Nirbhay N ^b   O'Reilly, Mark F ^c   Sigafoos, Jeff ^d   Didden, Robert ^e   Pichierri, Sabrina ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ONE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^f S Agostino Day Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automatic prompting; Inappropriate behavior; Intellectual disabilities; Positive attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; REINFORCEMENT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; REINFORCEMENT, VERBAL; STEREOTYPIC MOVEMENT DISORDER;

EID: 77953776918     PISSN: 01454455     EISSN: 15524167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145445510372751     Document Type: Article

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