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Case Reports
. 2010 Mar;43(1):113-8.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.2010.43-113.

Functional analysis and treatment of elopement across two school settings

Russell Lang  1 , Tonya Davis, Mark O'Reilly, Wendy Machalicek, Mandy Rispoli, Jeff Sigafoos, Giulio Lancioni, April Regester
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Functional analysis and treatment of elopement across two school settings

Russell Lang et al. J Appl Behav Anal. 2010 Mar.

Erratum in

  • J Appl Behav Anal. 2011 Fall;44(3):616

Abstract

The elopement of a child with Asperger syndrome was assessed using functional analyses and was treated in two school settings (classroom and resource room). Functional analyses indicated that elopement was maintained by access to attention in the resource room and obtaining a preferred activity in the classroom. Attention- and tangible-based interventions were compared in an alternating treatments design in both settings. Results validated the findings of the functional analyses. Implications for the assessment and treatment of elopement are discussed.

Keywords: Asperger syndrome; elopement; functional analysis; intervention.

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Results of functional analyses across the classroom and resource room settings.
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Results of the attention-based and the tangible-based interventions conducted in the resource room (top) and in the classroom (bottom).
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