The errorless classroom: A success-focused, non-intrusive approach to intervention for severe behaviour.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780494211823
Subjects: Conduct disorders in children -- Treatment.; Behavior disorders in children -- Treatment.; Problem children.; Social skills in children.; Social skills -- Study and teaching.
Description: Errorless acquiescence training (EAT) was used to improve the social skills of 8 children referred to a clinical classroom due to severe antisocial and oppositional behaviors. Prior to treatment, all 8 children evinced low levels of cooperation and high levels of antisocial behaviors. An errorless paradigm was used to teach children to tolerate and yield to the will and provocations of their peers without retaliation (i.e., acquiescence). Consistent with all errorless paradigms, key intervention components (i.e., instructions, prompts, reinforcements, and performance feedback) were systematically faded at a slow enough rate during treatment to ensure successful social interactions among peers. Throughout and following treatment, all 8 children demonstrated an increase in acquiescent responding, significant reductions in antisocial behaviors, and substantial improvements in prosocial verbal responding. The effects of EAT extended to improvements in prosocial physical responding and clean-up behaviors.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-03, page: 1168.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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