@article{ref1,
title="Teaching severely self-abusive and aggressive autistic residents to exit to fire alarms",
journal="Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry",
year="1993",
author="Israel, M. L. and Connolly, D. A. and von Heyn, R. E. and Rock, J. M. and Smith, P. W.",
volume="24",
number="4",
pages="343-355",
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).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0005-7916",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}