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Noncompliance to instructions or requests is a prevalent issue among persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities (PWIDD). A systematic literature review was conducted to identify peer-reviewed evidence for interventions that were aimed at either decreasing noncompliance or increasing compliant behaviours in this population. This chapter offers a definition of noncompliance as a behavioural deficit and excess, describes general behavioural approaches to remediating both the deficit and the excess, and reviews specific empirically supported interventions that address each problem.
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Cook, B., Duris, J., Martin, T.L., McCombe, L. (2019). Behavioural Strategies to Address Noncompliance. In: Matson, J.L. (eds) Handbook of Intellectual Disabilities. Autism and Child Psychopathology Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20843-1_30
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