Citation

Israel ML, Connolly DA, von Heyn RE, Rock JM, Smith PW. J. Behav. Ther. Exp. Psychiatry 1993; 24(4): 343-355.

Affiliation

Behavior Research Institute, Providence, Rhode Island 02909.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8077453

Abstract

Fifty-two case-hardened, severely self-abusive and aggressive autistic and retarded students, living in six different community residences, were trained to exit their residences, without the presence or assistance of staff, when a fire alarm sounded at night. On a pretest, prior to an 11-week period of intensive environmental and behavioral interventions, only 25% of the students exited within 2 1/2 minutes and independent of staff assistance. At posttest, 100% exited successfully, in a mean evacuation time of 60 seconds. The study was conducted at the Behavior Research Institute (BRI).

Language: en