On the relation of mands and the function of destructive behavior.
When standard analogue functional analysis procedures produce inconclusive results in children with conversational speech, the child's mands may help to identify the function of destructive behavior. In the current investigation, functional analyses conducted with 2 children who exhibited self-inju...
| Published in: | Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 251 - 266 |
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Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Summer97
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