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Megan Duffy Cassella1, Tina M Sidener, David W Sidener
1Department of Psychology, Caldwell College, Caldwell, New Jersey 07006, USA.
Abstract:
This study systematically replicated and extended previous research on response interruption and redirection (RIRD) by assessing instructed responses of a different topography than the target behavior, percentage of session spent in treatment, generalization of behavior reduction, and social validity of the intervention. Results showed that RIRD produced substantial decreases in vocal stereotypy. Limitations of this study were that behavior reduction did not generalize to novel settings or with novel instructors and that appropriate vocalizations did not improve.
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