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Noncompliance to requests is a behavior commonly exhibited by persons with developmental disabilities. Typically, differential reinforcement procedures, combined with response contingent consequences, are employed to manage noncompliance. An option to traditional operant methodologies is a stimulus control approach whereby various antecedent events are manipulated in an effort to set the occasion for compliant behavior. This study demonstrates how the noncompliant behavior (i.e., dropping to the ground and refusing to walk after exiting a van) of a multiply handicapped young adult was eliminated as a result of a compliance shaping intervention. A stimulus control analysis suggested that all elements of the intervention were critical to the success of the program. Follow-up assessment conducted 6 months after completion of training revealed maintenance of treatment effects.
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Cameron, M.J., Luiselli, J.K., McGrath, M. et al. Stimulus control analysis and treatment of noncompliant behavior. J Dev Phys Disabil 4, 141–150 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01046396
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