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A comparison of noncompliant behaviors of young handicapped and nonhandicapped children
Barber, Patricia Ann
Barber, Patricia Ann
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The present study investigated the prevalence of noncompliant behaviors in young handicapped children, and sought to determine if handicapped children are more noncompliant than their nonhandicapped peers. Subjects selected for this study included twelve handicapped and eleven nonhandicapped children enrolled in preschool and primary early intervention classrooms. The study itself consisted of two major components. The first component entailed the development and administration of the Preschool Compliance Scale (PCS), which was used to measure classroom teachers' perceptions of the subjects' noncompliant behaviors. The second component consisted of the direct observation of children's noncompliant behaviors as they occurred in a simulated classroom environment. Data collected from both components were used to compare noncompliant behaviors across populations and measurement methods.
Two main conclusions can be drawn from this study. First, a data analysis of children's noncompliance scores indicated that there was a high level of agreement between teachers' perceptions of children's noncompliant behaviors and the actual performance of these behaviors in the observational setting. Further analysis of both the survey (PCS) and observational scores demonstrated that handicapped subjects were significantly more noncompliant than the nonhandicapped subjects. An additional outcome of this study was the development of the Preschool Compliance Scale, which appears to be an effective early identification tool for classroom teachers. It is suggested that additional reliability and validity measures be obtained on the PCS. Other limitations of this study should be examined before the obtained results can be generalized.
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M.S. Ed. University of Kansas, Special Education 1984
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1984-05-31
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University of Kansas