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EFFECT OF NONCONTINGENT SOCIAL STIMULATION ON PRESCHOOLERS WITH SEVERE AND MULTIPLE HANDICAPPING CONDITIONS
Haag, Pamela Sue
Haag, Pamela Sue
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A reversal design was used to study the effect of noncontingent social stimulation on preschoolers with severe and multiple handicaps. The subjects were two children ages 2 and 5. Experimental condition A exposed each subject to 5 seconds of physical contact and conversational speech, experimental condition B provided 5 seconds of conversational speech only, and experimental condition C provided 1 to 2 foot proximity only. Vocal responses other than crying, smiles, and arm flexion were the responses measured for Subject 1. Vocal responses other than crying, arm abduction, and foot stamping were the responses measured for Subject 2. Data showed highly variable responses for both subjects across all behaviors measured during all experimental conditions. Subject 1 showed a change in her mean level of behavior of up to 20% during the study. Subject 2 showed a change in mean level of behavior of up to 48%. It was proposed that biobehavioral state, which was not a variable in the study, might account for the subjects' inconsistent responses.
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1985
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