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The effects of functional assessment-based behavioral intervention on the problem behaviors of a young child with developmental disabilities

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홍준표

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pp. 1~17 / 2005 Vol.12 No.1

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to identify the environmental determinants of problem behaviors through the functional assessment procedures and to analyze the effects of assessment-based behavioral intervention on modification of problem behaviors of a young child with developmental disabilities. The target behaviors were continuous crying, infantile masturbation, and vocalization of a child with autistic disorders. The determinants of problem behaviors identified through the informant assessment and descriptive analysis were primarily social attention for crying behavior and sensory feedback (or automatic reinforcer) for the infantile masturbation. The intervention procedures used in this study were, 1) Establishing operation (EO), 2) attention extinction, 3) differential reinforcement of other behaviors (DRO), incompatible and alternative behaviors(DRI, DRA). The findings of this study indicate that the behavioral intervention based on functional assessment was very effective in eliminating problem behaviors and increasing newly shaped alternative behaviors for a relatively short period of time.

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