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. 1983 Fall;16(3):345-9.
doi: 10.1901/jaba.1983.16-345.

The unit play manager as facilitator of purposeful activities among institutionalized profoundly and severely retarded boys

P F Spangler, A M Marshall

The unit play manager as facilitator of purposeful activities among institutionalized profoundly and severely retarded boys

P F Spangler et al. J Appl Behav Anal. 1983 Fall.

Abstract

Child care workers were trained in specified techniques (play manager routines) in an effort to increase purposeful activity among a group of profoundly and severely retarded institutionalized boys. A system of prompts, increasing the availability of toys and regular staff monitoring, were alternated with normal institutional routines in an ABA reversal design. On the average, activity level increased from 10% to a mean of 70% during treatment conditions. Correspondingly, stereotyped or harmful behaviors decreased from an average of 20% to 70% during treatment.

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