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Lowe's syndrome is a developmental disorder in which children must receive supplemental nutrients in their food to sustain health and proper metabolic functioning. This case study describes a training program for a boy with Lowe's syndrome who refused to feed himself and had become dependent upon caregivers at meals. The program provided sensory reinforcement (light and music stimulation) contingent upon the child's performance of graduated steps in a self-feeding sequence combined with stimulus control procedures. As evaluated in a changing criterion design, the child acquired independent self-feeding rapidly and results were maintained up to 1 year following training.
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Luiselli, J.K. Acquisition of self-feeding in a child with Lowe's syndrome. J Dev Phys Disabil 3, 181–189 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01045932
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01045932