Citation

Luiselli JK. Educ. Treat. Child. 1988; 11(2): 149-156.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, West Virginia University Press)

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Abstract

Sensory extinction has been shown to be an effective strategy for treating self-injurious behaviors that are reinforced by sensory consequences. However, few studies have compared the procedure to other management techniques and none have contrasted different methods of application. In this case study, a 6-year-old, multihandicapped child was treated for self-injurious arm-biting using two response contingent deceleration procedures (physical immobilization, distasteful solution) and two forms of sensory extinction (wearing tennis wrist bands or orthoplas cuffs). Only the sensory extinction procedure with protective cuffs reduced arm-biting to manageable levels as demonstrated in a reversal design. Issues pertinent to sensory extinction programming for selfinjury are discussed.

Language: en