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RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
Volume 27, Issue 4, Pages 430-442Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2005.05.005
Keywords
behavioral momentum; motivating operations; food refusal; high-p instructional sequence; pediatric feeding disorders
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- NICHD NIH HHS [1 K24 HD01380-01] Funding Source: Medline
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We evaluated the effects of escape extinction with and without a high-probability (high-p) instructional sequence on food acceptance and inappropriate behavior for children diagnosed with feeding problems. The high-p sequence consisted of three presentations of a response that was similar topographically (i.e., presentations of an empty nuk (R), liquid on a spoon, and a preferred liquid on a spoon) to the low-p response (i.e., presentation of a nuk with food, liquid from a cup, and presentation of a nonpreferred food). Acceptance of food increased in the presence and not the absence of the high-p sequence during initial withdrawals for two of the three children. In addition, the high-p sequence plus escape extinction was associated with reduced levels of inappropriate behavior relative to escape extinction alone for two children. Data are discussed in relation to behavioral momentum, motivating operations, and the relative contributions of the high-p instructional sequence and escape extinction in the treatment of feeding problems. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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