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Conditional use of a request for assistance.

J Reichle1, J McComas

  • 1Department of Communication Disorders, University of Minnesota, 164 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. reich001@umn.edu

Disability and Rehabilitation
|October 30, 2004
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Requests for assistance can be taught as an alternative to challenging behaviors that are maintained by escape. This strategy is effective for individuals with behavior disorders, promoting adaptive communication skills.

Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Challenging behaviors, particularly those maintained by escape, often impede learning and daily functioning.
  • Developing effective alternatives to maladaptive behaviors is crucial for individuals with behavior disorders.
  • Requests for assistance are a functional communication skill that can replace problem behaviors.

Observation:

  • A 12-year-old boy with a behavior disorder participated in the study.
  • Experiments utilized reversal and quasi-experimental designs to assess the efficacy of teaching requests for assistance.
  • Performance was compared during tasks of varying difficulty (easy vs. difficult addition problems).

Findings:

  • The conditional use of requests for assistance effectively competed with and replaced escape-maintained challenging behavior.

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  • The intervention demonstrated success in establishing a functional alternative to maladaptive responses.
  • Learner demonstrated improved performance when requests for assistance were implemented.

    • Implications:

    • Teaching individuals to make requests for assistance conditionally can be a viable strategy for reducing challenging behaviors.
    • Effective implementation requires that the individual learns the skill and that reinforcement favors independent responses over requests.
    • This approach offers a promising avenue for behavior intervention and skill acquisition in clinical and educational settings.