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The analysis and treatment of problem behavior evoked by auditory stimulation

Devlin, Sarah
; 
Healy, Olive
; 
Reed, Phil
; 
Leader, Geraldine
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2008
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Auditory stimulus assessment, Music, Autism, Differential negative reinformcement of other behaviour, Establishing operations
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Devlin, Sarah, Olive Healy, Geraldine Leader and Phil Reed. 2008. "The analysis and treatment of problem behavior evoked by auditory stimulation." Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 2(4):671-680.
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The current study aimed to identify specific stimuli associated with music that served as an establishing operation (EO) for the problem behavior of a 6 year old child with a diagnosis of autism. Assessment results demonstrated that specific EOs for problem behavior evoked by auditory stimulation could be identified. A differential negative reinforcement procedure was implemented for specific conditions that evoked problem behavior. Using a changing criterion and a differential negative reinforcement of other behavior, exposure to specific stimuli associated with music was gradually increased, and resulted in reductions in problem behavior to near zero levels.
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Elsevier
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10.1016/j.rasd.2008.02.001
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