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Functional assessment of hand flapping in a general education classroom
M M Mueller1, H E Sterling-Turner, D Scattone
1The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg 39406-5025, USA.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
|June 26, 2001
Abstract:
A functional assessment of hand flapping exhibited by a 5-year-old boy was conducted in a general education classroom. After a descriptive analysis ruled out several potential variables maintaining hand flapping, an experimental analysis was used to test the hypothesis that teacher-delivered task demands were functionally related to hand flapping. Results of the experimental analysis were used to develop a simple intervention for hand flapping.