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Yi-Chieh Chung1, Helen I Cannella-Malone
1The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
Behavior Modification
|July 28, 2010
Summary
Presession interventions can decrease challenging behaviors and increase correct responses in individuals with intellectual disabilities. However, effective strategies vary individually, especially when maintaining contingencies are unclear.
Area of Science:
- Behavior Analysis
- Intellectual Disabilities
- Applied Behavior Analysis
Background:
- Automatically maintained challenging behavior is a significant concern for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
- Understanding the influence of motivating operations on this behavior is crucial for effective intervention.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of four presession conditions on automatically maintained challenging behavior.
- To assess the effects on correct responding in individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Main Methods:
- Functional analysis was conducted to understand behavior-maintaining contingencies.
- A multielement design examined presession exposure to attention, response blocking, attention with response blocking, and noninteraction.
Main Results:
- Results varied significantly across participants; noninteraction served as both an abolishing and establishing operation.
- Presession manipulations decreased challenging behavior and increased correct responding for each participant, though specific effective conditions differed.
Conclusions:
- Presession interventions can be effective in reducing challenging behavior and increasing appropriate responses.
- Individualized assessment is necessary to identify optimal presession conditions when maintaining contingencies are unknown.
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