Effects of Behavioral Intervention on Behaviors of Children

By Hina Hadayat Ali and M. Naeem Mohsin

Taxing behaviors (TBs) such as self-stimulating behaviors (SSBs) and self-injurious behaviors (SIBs) are common, risky and gradually developing among intellectually challenged segment of population, sufficiently restricting the magnitude to which a person relishes a number of domains of sustenance. Interventions indispensably show advantage when (TBs) are discerned. Functional communication training (FCT) was used to replace multiply determined problem behaviors in a girl with autism. The focus of intervention was to replace self-injurious behaviors and self-stimulated behaviors with functionally equivalent communicative alternative responses. The participant of the study was taught alternative responses to recruit avoidance and request preferred objects. Acquisition of these alternative communication skills was associated with concurrent decreases in self-injurious behaviors and self-stimulated behaviors. Results showed that functional communication training (FCT) with extinction, punishment and reinforcement (positive and negative) resulted in at least a 46.5397% reduction in self-injurious behaviors and self-stimulated behaviors for all the sense related antecedent stimuli.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6205511223
• ISBN13: 9786205511220
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"