Sasso G M, Reimers T M, Cooper L J, Wacker D, Berg W, Steege M, Kelly L, Allaire A
Department of Special Education, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242.
J Appl Behav Anal. 1992 Winter;25(4):809-21. doi: 10.1901/jaba.1992.25-809.
We conducted descriptive and experimental analyses of aberrant behavior in school settings with 2 children with autism, using teachers as assessors. Experimental functional analyses carried out by the investigators were followed by training teachers to conduct a descriptive analysis and a classroom experimental analysis. A comparison of the assessment procedures showed that each procedure identified negative reinforcement as a maintaining variable for aberrant behavior. The teacher implemented an intervention based on the assessment with mixed results. We then replicated the initial results by having the first teacher train a second teacher to carry out the two assessment procedures. The results of these analyses were also in agreement, again identifying negative reinforcement as a variable maintaining aberrant behavior. An intervention based on negative reinforcement was then successfully implemented. These results suggest the applicability and utility of functional analyses carried out in school settings.
我们以教师为评估者,对2名自闭症儿童在学校环境中的异常行为进行了描述性和实验性分析。在研究者进行实验性功能分析之后,对教师进行培训,使其能够进行描述性分析和课堂实验分析。评估程序的比较表明,每种程序都将负强化确定为异常行为的维持变量。教师根据评估实施了一项干预措施,结果喜忧参半。然后,我们通过让第一位教师培训第二位教师来执行这两种评估程序,复制了最初的结果。这些分析的结果也一致,再次将负强化确定为维持异常行为的变量。随后成功实施了基于负强化的干预措施。这些结果表明了在学校环境中进行功能分析的适用性和实用性。